On the first night someone’s Japanese friends took us for okonomiyaki. Okonomiyaki is an omelette/pancake that comes raw from the kitchen with the vegetables and meat and you cook it at the table. Also on the menu was Japanese beer and sake.
Conferences were held the morning after by CLAIR (Council of Local Authorities for International Relations, MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) etc. and continued all day. We also saw a demonstration of a team-teaching lesson and feasted at a formal welcome dinner.
On the second night two Japanese friends came to meet me in the hotel. Ayako was a student at the school in Convent Garden and Masayuki was an exchange student at the university where Mhairi worked in Mexico.
We were straight onto a flight to Kagoshima the next day. I felt impatient to see sub-tropical Kyushu so I didn’t mind not seeing more of Tokyo. I'll be back...
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