Sunday, November 15, 2009

Guiding JICA Participants around Kamakura-- A Happy Reunion


[Date and Time] Sunday, November 15, at 11:00~16:40
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 48 JICA participants from 20 countries, with 6 each from Thailand and the Philippines, 5 each from Tajikistan and Afghanistan, 4 from Kazakhstan,3 from Iraq,
2 each from Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Moldova, 1 each from Brazil, Mexico, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Belize and Macedonia, and with 1 participating specially from JICE
[Attendants] 18 KSGG members and 1 observer

Kamakura was crowded with a lot of people mostly visiting the shrine for the festival of their children aged 7, 5 and 3, which we call Shichi-Go-San. The participants took the photos of those children as they shook hands with or held them alternately.
I was so happy to meet the visually impaired female participant from Kazakhstan again. She joined our last tour around Kamakura and Enoshima on October 17. At Hasedera Temple, the participants were pleased with a curios fair that had been held there by chance.