Hyogo, Fall 2005

Spent a day at Ieshima, Hyogo. The bus tour was sponsored by JICA-Furea. Most participants are Kobe-JDS 2005 batchmates. They said that this is the furthest province in Hyogo and experiencing economic downturn due to low birthrate and outmigration. Made some japanese rice cakes with other JICA participants in HIC.

Few days after we settled in our own apato, most of the JDS Kobe students joined this cooking class sponsored by JICA volunteers. We learned to cook okonomiyaki....