WELCOME 5 FRENCH BLOGGERS SHIKOKU TOUR 2011
2011年12月01日
Life is full of little surprises and the tour of 5 ‘muchujin’ “uber devotees” if you like from France here in Takamatsu this week was one of the good ones.
http://muchujin.jp/
http://en.muchujin.jp/?page_id=41
Welcome Guillaune, Jerome, Julia, Nicolas and Thierry from France. These people are active bloggers in Europe and share a deep love of Japanese culture and provided some demonstrations of the tea ceremony for Japanese guests which is a bit of a nice turnaround I thought?
The bloggers all participated in the ASPAC Bonsai Festival and were both giving demonstrations of their own skills with tea and bonsai, as well as studying throughout the time here. They will write these up on their blogs when they return. I hope your French is better than mine but I could see some articles written in English here too.
https://www.nikosan.com/
The Shikoku Department of Transport is a sponsor of this year’s tour. Jerome said that this was his first experience in Japan and he commented on the very high level of bonsai.
They all said that the experience was invaluable and want to advertise the charms of Kagawa to the world.
I was impressed with these young people as they were very friendly and whilst not fluent in English, made every effort to help me understand their great passion for the unique culture in Japan.
Well done Guillaune, Jerome, Julia, Nicolas and Thierry. You were prefect guests and wonderful ambassadors for France.
I’ll be back in a couple of weeks with more on our city. Keep all those cards n’ letters coming in. So until then …
"Pat has lived in Takamatsu continuously since arriving here on a one year study and leave 1981. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he was involved in education at a variety of levels including as a specialist teacher for children with learning difficulties, and at senior high schools throughout the state. Pat is employed full-time by the i-pal Kagawa International Exchange as a co-oridintaor for international relations amongst other duties including traveling to schools and giving talks in Japanese to kids about Australia. He has been involved with youth education exchanges between Japan and Australia for many years.
Pat has been many things in his colorful life including a seaman, helmsman, welder, carpenter, traffic warden, scholarship/studentship winner at the university of Tasmania, staff at the Australian Embassy in London to name but a few. Pat has far too many hobbies which include tennis, playing jazz flutes and saxes, riding bicycles with the Takamatsu Cycling Club all of which his long-suffering family tolerate. Recently he's become interested in painting again. His wife wishes he would put more time in to helping around the house and the garden which he artfully avoids ..."
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