16th Aug 2006 Reached BOE at 815am. We were all whisked off to Aomori City by BOE’s bus. I like this bus coz there’s a lot of leg space. Chatted with Murakami sensei along the way… Most of the time, I understand what he is saying but I don't how to react with the proper Japanese words. Plus I’ll somehow forget all the set expressions when I need them most.. So my most common line is “sou desu 
ne”… Hope I can improve my japanese soon!
When we reached Aomori Grand Hotel, I was pleasantly welcome by Felicia! She was waiting for me to have lunch together. I was even more pleased when I found out that we are given individual rooms! Wow! My room is pretty neat… Felicia, Crystal & I ate at a Jap family restaurant near the hotel. An auntie there was exceptionally helpful when she realised we are foreigners. After lunch, the whole series of workshops began… Since I slept so little last night, I really couldn’t keep awake during the first session… Kept dozing off... zzzzzz….
Had dinner at an izakaya with Alaine (posted to Nanbu), Crystal & Felicia. The
service there was really bad. There were not customer-friendly and worse still, they served our food very late & even forgot to serve one dish. Black-listed! Wasn’t very full too so Felicia, Crystal & I decided to walk ard to search for dessert. No shops were opened though.. so we went back to the hotel.
17th Aug 2006
What a comfortable night! Wished I could have slept in… Ate breakfast at 715am, went back to sleep for a while, then went for the workshop. We had a formal lunch reception at a ballroom today. We had to lin
e up according to our city names & shake hands with one of the big-shots. Then we were taken to the immigration dept to apply for our re-entry permit. After that, Felicia & I went shopping! Ha, I ended up buying something I never expected I will buy. A pair of Pappilio sandals for S$111!!! We also went to some 100yen shops.
Then we ate dinner at a very small dingy-looking ramen shop. Woohhh, the food is not bad though.. We both had a bowl of Hotate ramen (scallop-Aomori’s speciality!) & we shared a gyoza. We went back after dinner & started to pack out bags to get ready for check-out tmr.
18th Aug 2006
Workshops again… Had lunch at a nearby modern-looking Jap restaurant which offers “choose 9 dishes you like” bento lunches (includes a cup of coffee at the end of the emal) for 700yen. Very worth it for family style Jap food! Think this is the most 'worth it' meal during my 3 days here!
Mr Murakami came to the hotel to pick us up when the orientation ended, but this time we were not going home by the comfy bus! How sad! We all had to take a train back to Hachinohe… so we all lugged our bags to the train station, boarded an express train, changed train at Hachinohe station before we arrived at Konakano station. Thank goodness I live near Konakano station! Used my rice-cooker for the first time… and I’m amazed that it will play a melody when it starts cooking the rice and another melody when the rice is done! HAha, so cute! I call it my singing rice cooker!
ne”… Hope I can improve my japanese soon!
service there was really bad. There were not customer-friendly and worse still, they served our food very late & even forgot to serve one dish. Black-listed! Wasn’t very full too so Felicia, Crystal & I decided to walk ard to search for dessert. No shops were opened though.. so we went back to the hotel.
e up according to our city names & shake hands with one of the big-shots. Then we were taken to the immigration dept to apply for our re-entry permit. After that, Felicia & I went shopping! Ha, I ended up buying something I never expected I will buy. A pair of Pappilio sandals for S$111!!! We also went to some 100yen shops.
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