Orientation

To fully enjoy ten days

To get to know Enokisawa farm where we spent ten days, we walked around the neighbors in two groups. We talked about various topics including poisonous snakes, vegetables, etc in a very hot day.

We also looked around and also saw inside an old traditional house which was a center of our ten-day camp. A participant from Bahrain said “it reminds me of smell of an old house in my country!” Although Japan and Bahrain are far away from each other, atmospheres and smells old houses had were pretty similar. Participants were quite interested in a well outside of the house and refrigerators that was made by digging a cliff.

After that, we started making our name cards. Each person selected his favorite shell from what staff had collected on a beach beforehand, wrote his nickname on it, and colored it as he liked. This fancy name card is completed by getting a thread taken from old Indian sari through the shell, which created carnival like atmosphere.

Feeling Music

At the first night of our camp, we held an outdoor Welcome Live!
We invited TAMAKI Keitaro and TAMAKI Tomoko. They were actively playing music in many events. That was a live event in which not only these two musicians but everybody could play music by various musical instruments including flutes, percussions, and stringed instruments. We enjoyed foreign music played by international students, and also traditional music in Okinawa.

Regardless of the fact that this was the first night of our program, everybody enjoyed his music from his heart—this was actually a great beginning of our program that greatly encouraged everyone to express himself later in the program.