Athletic meeting in Akiyama

It recently have got a little cool in Japan. Autumn have started. So streets of my school smell strange because maidenhair trees take their ginkgo off.

There was an athletic meeting in my local area yesterday. We attended it as Youth Organization of Akiyama. We not only helped preparation but also sold Yakisoba, juice and Rakugaki Senbe.

Do you know Yakisoba? Yakisoba is one of Japanese foods, like noodles without soup. Japanese Yakisoba is shown in left photo. It is not Yakisoba we made because I forgot to take a picture of our Yakisoba. It looks like our Yakisoba very well but I think our Yakisoba is better taste than its Yakisoba.

There were not any stalls in the athletic meeting by now. So it was risky for us to sell foods there because all costumers didn't know our stalls and brought own lunch. However, They bought our Yakisoba a lot because it is hot food, good taste and very cheap, I think. We were very busy and had no time to have a lunch. People with yellow T-short in photos are my friends. Do you remember the T-short? I wore it in Kenya.

Do you know Rakugaki Senbe? It is chips for children. You know Senbe. I brought it in Kenya. Senbe is traditional Japanese food and made from rice. Rakugaki means to feel free to draw something. The following is explanation of how to make Rakugaki Senbe. At first, we give children a Senbe whose size is big like a notebook. They feel free to draw something by several brushes with sugared water. After they finished to draw something, we put colorful sugar on the Senbe. So colorful sugar was fixed on only wet area. The stall also was busy with many children.

We went to our favorite bar after the Athletic meeting to have "a evaluation meeting". We enjoyed our time there as well as had dinner and drunk. Then, all of money we had got was gone. We spent all of the profit before we thought this year. (-_-;) I think now I should have donate the profit our community. We will do next year!

By the way, I did not drink in "a evaluation meeting". It was not so hard. I found that I was able to enjoy drinking party without alcohol.

About Kenya:

You know my essential tools in Kenya. Those were a notebook and a pen. Now they help me remember details of life in Kenya. I tell you about Kenyan adulteries. I asked Vincent about them when we were walking around there September 4. Kenyan adulteries similar to Japanese. Someone do and another one don't. He said that Nairobi has a lot of disease but here is very safe. I asked him how many time have you ever done. He said "uh..., one, two, three..... I don't know." Finally, he said that I necessarily use a condom.