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| The lady sitting across from us asked for my phone and then took about 50 pictures of us. |
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| Kono san in the middle has been a good friend to me. Literally NO ONE at Volunteer speaks any English, but Kono san brings her little translator machine and tries her best to communicate with me. The one on the right is Kadowaki san who you have seen many times on this blog. She is a dear friend. |
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| The bento box lunch. It was good. |
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| The crowd. |
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| Everyone brings a little treat to share at these parties. I brought Next Best Thing to Robert Redford dessert which everyone seemed to love. |
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| Kadowaki san brought these delicious little carved apple pies. The bottom is a crust and the top a piece of apple she carved to look like a rose. It tasted like apple pie and was an absolute work of art. |
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| After lunch, we took a picture of the whole crew. |
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| In the city building where we go, there was a display of beautiful quilts and artwork all done by three generations of one family. The grandma was the quilter. I wish I had taken more pictures of the beautiful quilts. |
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| This lady is the "mother" and did the beautiful artwork, using real dried flowers. |
3 comments:
Too bad about the weather. But it sounds like it was a fun party anyway! You are so good at seeing the beauty and the good in everything around you.
Another fun party! I love how the Japanese make everything beautiful. That apple pie is amazing! I also love the quilt. It looks like you made great friends through your volunteering. They won't forget you and you won't forget them.
Looks and sounds a bit different than our Bento box lunches at Sakura, but both are good, right? What special friends you have made, even with the language barrier. There seems to be an inate artistic sensitivity in the Japanese - it seem that everything they create is aesthetically pleasing.
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