HSA Dinner
Today I went to a dinner held by Hiroshima Singapore Association (HSA) at Qian Xi Lou at Civil Service Club. It was a great thing to meet some of my old travel-mates whom I got to know last year through the Hiroshima Homestay Programme. Although we did not sit together around the same table, we managed to take some photos together and update each other of our latest happenings.
I was sitting near Oeda-sensei and was surprised to heard that she's going to teach in England. It's really quite sad.......to think that I'll never see Oeda-sensei in school anymore. I thought she was going to teach Japanese 4 and 5....but unfortunately, she has decided to venture to England. Wish her all the best in everything she do over there.
I also got to meet a few new people - some Japanese students on an exchange program with SP and collected quite a few name cards. And tonight is the night where I think I spoke the most Japanese in quite a while....everyone had to make a small speech and I kinda fumbled mine. Really dunno what to say.......However I didn't eat much. The food was okay....except our table got a little mishap along the way. Turns out a baby crockroach decided to be the extra ingredient in our steamboat...which is kinda disgusting. Quite pai-seh lah.....to let people see our resturant quality like tat.......alamak embarrassed sia.
The one thing I know is that we took lots and lots of photos. I hope someone would send the photos to me....it really brings back good memories of that time in Hiroshima. And I also saw some of my Japanese 3 classmates who also went Hiroshima this year for internship. It was a lively gathering though it took me some time to warm up and dare to speak out with my broken Japanese.
After dinner, Jasmine and I decided to went back home by bus. Jasmine is really very nice to walk me to my 21 bus stop. Unfortunately, it turn out to be hers........we walked for 5 minutes for nothing actually. In the end we both decided to take a cab separately. I had a good time chatting with her about school stuff and a little about her trip in Japan. All in all, I think the dinner turn out to be pretty nice.
I was sitting near Oeda-sensei and was surprised to heard that she's going to teach in England. It's really quite sad.......to think that I'll never see Oeda-sensei in school anymore. I thought she was going to teach Japanese 4 and 5....but unfortunately, she has decided to venture to England. Wish her all the best in everything she do over there.
I also got to meet a few new people - some Japanese students on an exchange program with SP and collected quite a few name cards. And tonight is the night where I think I spoke the most Japanese in quite a while....everyone had to make a small speech and I kinda fumbled mine. Really dunno what to say.......However I didn't eat much. The food was okay....except our table got a little mishap along the way. Turns out a baby crockroach decided to be the extra ingredient in our steamboat...which is kinda disgusting. Quite pai-seh lah.....to let people see our resturant quality like tat.......alamak embarrassed sia.
The one thing I know is that we took lots and lots of photos. I hope someone would send the photos to me....it really brings back good memories of that time in Hiroshima. And I also saw some of my Japanese 3 classmates who also went Hiroshima this year for internship. It was a lively gathering though it took me some time to warm up and dare to speak out with my broken Japanese.
After dinner, Jasmine and I decided to went back home by bus. Jasmine is really very nice to walk me to my 21 bus stop. Unfortunately, it turn out to be hers........we walked for 5 minutes for nothing actually. In the end we both decided to take a cab separately. I had a good time chatting with her about school stuff and a little about her trip in Japan. All in all, I think the dinner turn out to be pretty nice.
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