Evaluation & Farewell Party 31st July

Finally... last day of the program..... was doing my packing for the entire morning.....Not easy... I had to weight & reweight & reweight my luggage. In the afternoon we had an evaluation of the training courses. Mostly ok but one of the comments I made was that the reading materials especially on the Laws and Support for PWDs in Japan should be given to us before we come over so we can do some pre-reading first. And most of us think that the time given for the project plan workshop by Ms Sarajean was not enough.

The boys looking so serious during evaluation!

Sato san, Sadaie san & Keiko san at the evaluation

Sadaie san showing the certificate that we will be getting AFTER we submit over progress report on our Project Plan in February next year. After evaluation, we had a closing ceremony. The boys choose me to represent them to give a speech. I didn't agree and told them it's an "autocratic" democracy just like Malaysia's government but they insisted on me. Dun know why they choose me since I'm such a shy person and not very good at giving speech.... ;) Anyway I said ok but the boys have to write the speech for me! hahaha actually a good deal.....

The Deputy Director of JICA TIC giving her speech

MY turn to give the speech.... Did not trip or anything.....phew!!hahaha

The whole team that was involved in our program...well almost all of them are here.

We called ourselves the "Decent Team" hahaha since this is the first year they renamed the course to "Decent Work for PWDs". I think this is the first time Nerand is smiling in a photo. I had to remind him to smile.

Farewell Party time! Quite a number of invited guest came. Some of our lecturers also came and Mr & Mrs Machida san (we visited their home at Atsugi City) also came. We had food, fellowship and some singing. I also showed a video of our past 6 weeks activities to them. They really enjoyed the video... they should.. took me 2 nights to compiled it! hahahah

Both Indra and my host families also came for the party. Nice to see them again...

After the farewell party. Asahi san took us out for a farewell dinner. We went to one of the drinking restuarant near Hatagaya.

We had beer, sashimi, noodles and other stuff and just laugh & laugh and talk.... I'm going to miss these people......

We had one last farewell song in the streets before saying "sayonara"

With Matsuura san, our coordinator cum interpreter for the past 7 weeks. She must be so relieve that it's finally over! hahahaha

We said our goodbyes and the boys & I headed back to TIC. I went to say goodbye to Jocelyn who is from Micronesia and Latifa. Jocelyn is here for Nursing Management course and will be leaving on the 2nd August and Latifa is leaving on the 8th August. It was nice to know them.... different field, different culture, different background.

This is Jocelyn. Went to her room to say bye bye. She was also packing.

The boys were very happy when I told them that I will open a bottle of sake for our last night since my luggage is overweight. So all of us squeeze into Zhou's room (he's leaving early the next day so had to do his packing) and and had our last drinking session. I'm going to miss drinking with the boys.