Memory of KTC

March 13th, 65 day training has been done.

Yes, it was done... I'm very sad because it was so much fun. Before leaving from the center by bus, everyone all cried. This training was something very important and precious in my 23 year life and I learned so many things.

I introduce some of my close friends here :

Very funny but intelligent nurse, going to PNG as HIV/AIDS worker

Very good pianist who has strategic theories : going to Benin as community rural worker

I could have very serious/frank discussions with him going to Bangladesh

Latino who really wanted to go to Mexico, going to Cameroon actually

Very cute but funny nurse going to Senegal

Jazz mania and world trip folie, going to Benin

　　　

Very calm but sweet boy going to Senegal

Class 13's master, Simone living in Japan for more than 10 years

Class 13 mates

4th year at university who missed graduation ceremony on departure's day like me, going to Tonga

My sencond dad going to Costa Rica

Spanish teacher who said "hola" to me every morning with a big smile

Lunch break chat partner : English

I miss everyone of them and even others who are not here but there is goodbye to go forward.

I expect to output well in Burkina what I have learned at KTC.

Honored meeting

On March 10, we, JOCV candidates had Tokyo day trip to meet "very close" our emperor son, prince Naruhito.

In the bus, we look nervous, don't we ???

It was very 1st time to even see the emperor's family house (Togu Gosho) with my eyes besides, I set foot in it !

Since I'm the leader of Burkina volunteer group, I stood at the front row with other country leaders. My 1st task was to say "we are 12 volunteers who are going to Burkina Faso" to him when he came in front of me... Can you guess how many times I practiced this very short phrase not to falter out !

Yes, I made it !

Then he asked me where I was going in the country and what I would do there concretely. It was already too much for me to be in the same room with him so I could not answer to these...

Well, well, it's not true. I was so relieved after saying the perfect phrase :) Plus, the prince's very elegant and calm atmosphere relaxed me. So I had a brief but very nice chat with him, I was gazing at him though. The house servants offered us very frech juice&western cookies while our chat as well.

It was very strange, oh no, precious experience, I should say.

You expect his photo, don't you ? Well, of course not, even the house photo. It was alsolutely impossible well banned to bring anything with us to enter there. Even if I had and I posted them here, I would have no more normal life...

Instead, some photos outside of a hotel where we had break before the visit...

There is something !

Vending machine !?

all cans of regular juice here were 10yen more expensive than usual (130yen) !

Because this area is close to the emperor's house !?

:)

My best souvenir of this visit was to get known that the prince is as small as me !