Hello!
Firstly i have to say i can't believe how fast everything has gone seeing as we only have less than a week left..i've definitely enjoyed this experience a lot and really glad i came. I really wanted to experience a different side to japan as even though i've been to japan many times and already familiar to the culture, coming to carp here has been a very different experience.
The main things we've been doing everyday is going to the witnessing center meeting guests, playing uno, cooking and just generally helping out. At first i was getting a bit repetitive doing the same things everyday but to be fair i came here to experience carp life and this is basically what they do everyday. However for the past few days we haven't really been doing this. Basically we were asked to do a performance for family night on a 2 day workshop so for like 2 days we practiced that a bit, they asked us to sing and dance to a Japanese carp song which was....interesting, anyway we promised never to mention that performance again so i shall move on...anyway so for the 2 day workshop we were kitchen staff but this time it wasn't so hard as the workshop was only for one guest. It was really interesting to see how much effort and hard work they put into just one guest, giving her a big welcoming, always trying to keep up a happy atmosphere, lots of praying and so on.
Other things we've been doing is asking Carp members to give us their testimony from both 1st and 2nd gen and take them out somewhere like a family restaurant and asking things like why they joined carp, what they most enjoy about carp, what they find most difficult ect. This has really given us more of an insight into what Japanese carp life is like and also get to know that person better.
Yesterday we went into Hiroshima city with 2 other carp members and went to the Atomic bomb museum, although it was a bit depressing it was still an interesting experience and i learnt a lot about what happened. Afterwards we met up with some other carp members from the other Hiroshima carp centre and went to a local park to do some cleaning, picking up litter ect.
Anyway i've really enjoyed this week as it's been a bit of a change from our usual schedule, i really feel recently i've gotten to know all the people here better and really feel adjusted to carp life and just being here so I'm sad were gonna leave so soon, everyone here has been so friendly and welcoming. so overall.. I'm really glad that i met these people and thankful about being able to have this experience here:)
I heard that about a quarter of the people who died in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped were Korean. Was there anything in the museum mentioning that?
返信削除we didn't have time to go through it in detail. as we were short on time, but i don't they mentioned that. just that most were innocent civilians as a post to military personel
返信削除when we went to the museum (first time for the rest of us) we were short on time again, but i did manage to catch that there were many koreans and chinese people who were either working there because of forced labour or as some sort of cheap labour, and that many had died in the attack. In the peace park theres also a memorial for all the koreans who died in the attack. but really?! a quarter i don't think so, there was nothing stating such figures or any basis for those numbers to be based on.
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