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21/10/07
We went to a Muslim’s apartment in SunSquare as they are having the Raya open house today. A Chinese from UTM, Kho brought us there. SunSquare is at the downtown of Higashihiroshima, the apartment where Miss Funato wanted to book for us initially. It’s quite far from the university but convenient to go to the shops nearby, and it’s near to bus terminal, railway station. quite a number of foreign students, especially the Malaysians are staying there. we met quite a number or Malays there. Kho said there’s about 40-50 Malays from M’sia stay there.
The Muslim’s house we are going to is actually a Chinese lady called Jasmine, who can speak Chinese. I think she is a marriage convert. Her family is not here, she is here for her PhD. There are also some foreigners and Japanese visiting them for the open house. We enjoyed the nasi lemak with super spicy sambal, fried mihun, curry, super delicious popiah which I took a lot, cake, nice drinks which i don't know the name.
We went to a Muslim’s apartment in SunSquare as they are having the Raya open house today. A Chinese from UTM, Kho brought us there. SunSquare is at the downtown of Higashihiroshima, the apartment where Miss Funato wanted to book for us initially. It’s quite far from the university but convenient to go to the shops nearby, and it’s near to bus terminal, railway station. quite a number of foreign students, especially the Malaysians are staying there. we met quite a number or Malays there. Kho said there’s about 40-50 Malays from M’sia stay there.
The Muslim’s house we are going to is actually a Chinese lady called Jasmine, who can speak Chinese. I think she is a marriage convert. Her family is not here, she is here for her PhD. There are also some foreigners and Japanese visiting them for the open house. We enjoyed the nasi lemak with super spicy sambal, fried mihun, curry, super delicious popiah which I took a lot, cake, nice drinks which i don't know the name.
After eating we went over to Kho’s apartment which is just a few doors away. His 4 month old baby girl is really a cute one! and I have to say that she's growing like a 1~2 years old baby's size. They shared with us quite some of their experiences as they have been staying here for 2 years already. By the way, Kho is also doing his PhD here, his wife Lydia followed him here.
Their apartment is quite small compare to ours; the one we are staying in now is twice the size of theirs. but I think that’s good enough already, as our apartment is a bit too big for us, and the bigger the house is, the more energy you need to heat up the place. I actually imagined a very very small apartment, where you may even need to store your mattress in cupboard after you wake up so that you can have space to walk and do works. But instead it’s much bigger than what I thought. Maybe the place we stay is not so developed so you can have more space in the house.
Lydia told us that the tour in Japan itself is so expensive that even the Japanese themselves can’t really afford it. That makes us wonder if we can have a look around in Japan before we go back... but the good news is we might have a free autumn trip on 11/11 which is organized for the international students. I’m looking forward to that. :)
Kho then brought us to few places to buy cheap stuff. It’s cheaper compare to the stuff we bought in YouMeTown so we bought a lot of stuff. We were over thrilled to find a packet of about 10 garlic only cost around 200 yen. Rice is also much cheaper so we bought another 10kg of rice at 2980 yen. :)
After we reached home Prof Okuda came to send us his bicycle. He has an extra one back in Hiroshima City and he purposely went back to bring it here for us. I have to say we are really blessed to have these people that brought us to many places and helped us in many ways. Though we didn’t manage to attend mass today, but He still looked after us so well.
Their apartment is quite small compare to ours; the one we are staying in now is twice the size of theirs. but I think that’s good enough already, as our apartment is a bit too big for us, and the bigger the house is, the more energy you need to heat up the place. I actually imagined a very very small apartment, where you may even need to store your mattress in cupboard after you wake up so that you can have space to walk and do works. But instead it’s much bigger than what I thought. Maybe the place we stay is not so developed so you can have more space in the house.
Lydia told us that the tour in Japan itself is so expensive that even the Japanese themselves can’t really afford it. That makes us wonder if we can have a look around in Japan before we go back... but the good news is we might have a free autumn trip on 11/11 which is organized for the international students. I’m looking forward to that. :)
Kho then brought us to few places to buy cheap stuff. It’s cheaper compare to the stuff we bought in YouMeTown so we bought a lot of stuff. We were over thrilled to find a packet of about 10 garlic only cost around 200 yen. Rice is also much cheaper so we bought another 10kg of rice at 2980 yen. :)
After we reached home Prof Okuda came to send us his bicycle. He has an extra one back in Hiroshima City and he purposely went back to bring it here for us. I have to say we are really blessed to have these people that brought us to many places and helped us in many ways. Though we didn’t manage to attend mass today, but He still looked after us so well.
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