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| Journal part4 Hippo Participant's experience | ||
| By : Nurussaadah Mokhtar | ||
Day 4: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
I was quite nervous about Rina-chan’s planning for Wednesday. I was going to meet a lot of HIPPO CLUB members from all over Nishinomiya City. Almost all of them brought their children together and Sanae-chan who came earlier to the house taught me few words to introduce myself and my family. I became more confident after that… The meeting took place in Hiromi Kawasaki’s house. We called her Vita. Vita’s family was one of the very active members of the club and she had received a lot of guests before. In comparison, she could speak better English than the rest. Some of the new friends whom After the ice-breaking session, they wanted to see me in a traditional Japanese women dress, kimono. Amazingly, among them, Sanae-chan was the only expert in dressing up a woman with a kimono. | ||
Day 5: Thursday, June 2, 2005 |
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Day 6: Friday, June 3, 2005 Friday in Japan? How will it be? Friday in Malaysia means long lunch hour, men catching Friday prayers and supermarkets filled with women fulfilling their ‘needs’.Early in the morning, I joined Miifa, Margarita and Pure for ceramic making. We went to the house of a sensei who teaches ceramic making. He taught Miifa and Pure before. Ironically, I never had a chance to make ceramic in Malaysia. I couldn’t believe I got to do it in Japan! Next, we got on train to Kobe to catch Friday prayer. Nana, Azah, Rina-chan and Nancy were already waiting for us at the Kobe Mosque.  As we were walking to the mosque, suddenly somebody from behind gave salam to me. Wow… Since long time I did not heard people giving salam while in Japan. He was Jonni, also on his way to the mosque. Jonni comes from Indonesia and now undertaking a practical training in Japan.We met other few Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh Indonesia and some few Japanese Muslims. We were also introduced to Lutfi an Indonesian from Bali. Being very fluent in Japanese Lutfi had been staying in Japan for almost a year! We ate a buffet style lunch of typical Indian food but I think it was a blend of Middle Eastern food too. Japanese yogurt drink was awesome! That kind of lunch cost us ¥ 500! No wonder the restaurant owner smiled happily as we walked out.  On our way home, I think Rina-chan had already started to plan what to cook that night. I do pity her. While I was organizing my stuff in their cozy reading room, I went to the kitchen several times when Rina-chan called me to choose which flavor can be eaten or not. Almost all the time I had to say ‘gomen nasai’ which means ‘sorry’ to troubled her that way. And then she would say ‘daijeboo’ which means ‘never mind’. Of course, that is the way to treat visitors, right? |
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I came to know of Kobe in Japan from the earth-quake which flattened Kobe in 1995. Kobe was the itinerary for the fifth day of my visit to Japan,.