Last Sunday began in under a beautiful sunny weather. Our dear teacher from Papua New Guinea had invited us to plant cherry blossom trees. The place was Bungotoyooka, a serene fishing village north-west of Oita.
Together with the local community and students from the Asia Pacific University (IPU) we planted about 100 cherry tree seedlings to the sea-banks of the village.
The head of education in Hiji area launched the event by planting the fist tree. A discussion with him revealed that he was rather interested about the education system of Finland. He even wanted to travel to Finland to know more but was too busy to to it.
Press was there too. One of our fellow students, after planting this seedling, was interviewed by a news reporter.
Every cherry blossom tree was decorated with the planter's name plate. Now we have one tree of our own in Japan!! After 10 years it will be nice to return there and see the same tree again (if its still alive).
What a heap of pork meat! Planting session was followed by BBQ and several music performances.
This bottle, which kids had filled, was full of tiny crabs or something - jumping a round and moving quickly. I had to be fun to collect them I guess.
Two days after, on Tuesday, a story appeared in The Yomiuri Shimbum! It was about our international event with a photo and interview! It is great that they've recognized this joyful event!
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