★Report★Part.1_The ９th Multicultral Meeting in NAGANO

Multicultural Meeting

in NAGANO

日本語   한국어

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Theme
Live in a multicultural

Sub Theme
Explore Seasonal Japanese Culture
Touch every culture around the world
Conversation about troubles life in Japan

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The ９th Multicultural Meeting
in Nagano
was held on Saturday,  

July 20 from 10:30 to 13:30
at TOMITAKE HOUSE
in Tomitake, Nagano- city

The theme
“Let us experience HAWAII!!”
was the theme of this time.

Participating countries:
USA: 1 person,
Philippine: 4 persons,
Lithuania: 2 persons,
Japan: 17 persons

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Advance preparation

On Friday, June 28,
Ms. Megan Dung and we staff had
the meeting at the International Relations
Devision of Nagano prefecture.

On Friday, July 5,
we staff welcomed Megan at Tomitake House
and tried cooking cuisine of Hawaii.

We tried cooking Haupia,
Spam Musubi and Salad.

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➀ Opening of the Meeting

Representative Shimizu
greeted to the participants.

②The schedule of this Meeting
was announced by MC Yagi.

She also introduced the presenter
Megan Dung
who is the staff of Nagano prefecture
International Relations,
was born in Hawaii and
her grandmother is Japanese.

Schedule Today


③The introduction of Hawai
 Presentation of Hawaii was done by Megan Dung.



All the participants listened the presentation
of Hawaii eagerly for about 30 minutes.
Megan introduced Hawaii and also introduced
her experience of Japanese culture
to the participants.
We had never heard before what
Megan talked to us.
Before I knew it,
presentation time of Hawaii had passed.

This time we cannot upload the presentation
of Hawaii which was done by Megan.
(Nagano prefecture International Relations
where Megan belongs has the copyright of it
and did not give us the permission to
upload Megan’s presentation.)

④Cooking Hawaii cuisine
Divided into 4 teams,
we cooked salad and Spam Musubi.

Megan showed us the tips of
how to cook Spam Musubi.

2 filipino ladies and 2 handsome guys cooked well.

Junior high school student(photo in the left)
who took part in this meeting for the first time
also enjoyed cooking Spam Musubi

⑤Actually tasting Hawaii cuisine.

From the front left of the photo is Spam Musubi
and Caesar salad, the back middle is Haupia,
back right is Guava juice.

They look very delicious.

⑥The Second Section
Maria from Lithuania performed
Hawaiian dance.

She danced very beautifully
and looked like an angel.
Many ladies who were enjoying her
performance looked very happy
and their eyes were filled
with touching tears.

Maria and her mother greeted us for farewell
because they would leave for Lithuania
We miss them so much
but we wish them the best.
They smiled with “Shaka” pose
which was taught by Megan.
“Shaka” means “Hello”, “See you”,
“Thank you” and also Hawaiians pose
“Shaka” when they take picture.

We all together took commemorative photo.

This article continues to Part 2
because of the character limit