Food
Today the 1st year students had a chance to meet my parents. After our trip to Founders’ Park, everyone came back to my place to enjoy a delicious afternoon tea together. My parents said our students are delightful, and they really enjoyed meeting them! Tomorrow they will come with us to Abel Tasman National Park.
Tea [...]
Wow, hard to believe we’ve been here 2 weeks! Half our time in New Zealand is gone! Today was a free day, so most of us went to the weekly Nelson Market… this is a special market with 100s of stalls selling only handmade things such as food, vegetables, jewelry, clothing, and so on.
In the [...]
With all the girls in different classes, it means they sometimes have to say goodbye to fellow students. Today some of the Kanagawa University girls were leaving, so they held a goodbye party!
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The food!
Getting ready
Saori cutting her cake
Fresh cream [...]
New Zealanders love watching cricket and rugby – especially when the games are against Australia! On Wednesday, New Zealand played a 1-day cricket test against Australia (and we won), so Nao invited me for dinner with her homestay family. It was a great night, and Nao’s yakisoba was very delicious. She did a great job, [...]
Bright and early on Saturday morning, 5 girls, Yoshi, Miho (centre member) and I walked up to the hilltop to view the sunrise on a beautiful cloudless day! We then started another busy day:
View the sunrise
Breakfast (toast, fruit, yoghurt, etc)
Peace activities: A series of discussion activities and songs on peace
Scone and breadmaking
Tour of the large [...]
Over the last few days, we’ve had an amazing stay at the Riverside Community [website]. This is an alternative community near Nelson based on the ideas of pacifism and cooperative living. They have a property of about 200ha on which they raise animals, fruit, and vegetables, run a cafe, host events, plus other businesses. We [...]
After another morning of hard study, we again headed out for afternoon activities. This time we had a chance to finally see some of New Zealand’s famous countryside – sheep, cows, sheep, ducks, and more sheep! We started out with a visit to a berry farm where we had a chance to pick beautiful strawberries [...]
On Wednesday, we had a chance to cook our own lunch in the international center’s kitchen. Helped by Emily, we prepared a delicious meal, and everyone left very full! Our menu was:
Pzza (Salami & vegetable, ham & pineapple)
Nachos
Nanaimo bar (a popular local sweet treat. Read about it here)
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Downtown in Nanaimo, very close to my hotel, there is a river in which salmon are beginning to spawn. Every day, the mouth of the river is crowded with fishermen trying to catch ‘pinks’ or pink salmon. These are smaller than sock-eye salmon, but still very delicious apparently. There are always a few seals around [...]
This morning, the students all visited the Natural History museum on the VIU campus. Following that, they walked about 6kms to their teacher, Kathy’s house for lunch. On the way, they walked through 2 wildlife areas: Buttertubs Marsh Bird Sanctuary and Bowen Park.
Kathy’s house is right next to Bowen Park. It’s a beautiful location, and [...]
In Japan, and in my home country of New Zealand, we don’t tip at restaurants, so learning to tip can be a bit scary and confusing. How much, and how to pay it? Usually in Canada people tip around 15% of the meal’s charge, so you get pretty good at calculating that after a short [...]
Nanaimo has lots of great restaurants downtown, but tonight I decided to eat one of my favorites from New Zealand – ‘Fish & Chips.’ The restaurant I went to is in the yacht marina downtown, so the setting is very nice. The food was good, and the cost… $10.25 (about ¥950). Yummy!
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Everyone was anxious to try some Canadian food, but sizes were big and calories were high!!
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BLT sandwich
Spring rolls
Giant pizza
Choco apples
