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First thing today:
YOU REALLY NEED TO TRY THE McDONALD'S IN JAPAN.
McDonald's is a popular fast food chain restaurant world-widely. However, different countries will tailor the menu differently in order to make the food more palatable to the local consumers. It also reflects the food culture in one country. For example, in China, congee/porridge is in regular breakfast menu and the average price of one combo is about 5$, which is a little bit lower than the price in the U.S. In Japan, the average combo price is about 700yen, which is kind of similar to the price in the U.S. Like in Chinese McD, Japanese McD also do not have 2 cheeseburgers meal in the menu. The ice cream looks different but it is amazing (AMAZING~). I also noticed that they do not have ranch or sweet/sour sauce for chicken nuggets:(, instead, they have BBQ sauce and mustard sauce for it. Michael tried the special－Fruit shrimp? According to the official description, it is a dish like a shrimp toppings a sweet sweet chili sauce to the menu "shrimp fleo" born in Japan. I heard it is pretty good:)
Part 2: Work
In this week, our main job is to prepare and do presentations for the J1 (English advanced level) students. We all agreed that being able to understand and emerge in one's culture is crucial for the students who want to study/work abroad. In addition, having the sense of cultural sensitivity can help students to avoid conflicts, respect other cultures and learn from different perspectives. For this reason, we chose our topic as "Study abroad and cultural sensitivity". (We also shared our personal experiences, campus life as well as a brief introduction of IWU in the presentation.)
During the presentations, students are a bit shy and only few of them raised their hands to ask questions. I was actually a little bit nervous and worried at first. But after presentations, some students came down to ask us questions and told us they enjoyed it. We also collected and saw students' questions and comments. Those are good questions and the comments are very sweet:))
I also conducted an elementary chat session. We played the Pictionary game and it was a lot of fun. I really can't draw...:)
Part 3: Tea ceremony
I also joined the tea ceremony (茶道／さどう) club in Aoyama Junior High School. Practicing tea ceremony was a very special experience for me. It's complicated but very interesting because tea ceremony is a significant part of Japanese culture. The one I learnt is the informal tea ceremony, which is matcha with green tea powders. The formal one, which is shown in the second picture, is called senchado. This one is more formal and requires more procedures.
Part 4: FOOOOOOODS
This is the Monja-yaki street in Tsukishima.
Very cool place. You can cook by yourself!
ALLLLL good. The average price per meal is about 15-20$ for me;)