After long time!!

Ia orana!!

It's been 6 months since I arrived at Bora Bora island. It's winter season here now but it's strong sun shine as ever.

I was a little ashamed!!

Ia orana!!

Now the one French people who takes care of me has Japanese lesson 2 or 3 times a week. I and he were invited at his teacher’s home for dinner last night. There were another 5 people who usually learn Japanese there. We cooked rolled “SUSHI” then. They were good at cooking it well.
Although I’m Japanese, I was very ashamed that I didn’t use to cook rolled SUSHI. They must have thought why I don’t know about the way to cook it well. After having dinner, we took a little Japanese green tea made of the special green tea powder. Now generally,
us Japanese seldom take it. When we have such tea that I've just explained above now, we'll be required some good manners.

I thought I must learn my national culture more then.

Anyway I hadn’t thought at all that I would learn Japanese culture earlier than I did Polynesian culture in Tahiti Island.

The big cup!!

Ia orana!!

Please look at the picture on right side.　As you can see, this is a cup but it isn’t normal size. We drink coffee with this cup every morning. In addition, coffee is full in the one.

First I was very surprised at drinking coffee with it.

The twinkle

Ia orana!!

Fortunatelly I used to look up at beautiful starry sky in Okinawa area, Japan for the last ５ years so I'm not recently impressed easily just looking at starry sky anywhere.

But The starry sky in Tahiti have been different from Japanese thing. The stars in Tahiti are quite twinkling. I'm sorry that I can't show you any great pictures on this blog. I'll suggest you come here someday and please look up at starry sky.

Visit to local travel agency

Ia orana!!

"Ia orana" means HELLO in Tahitian. This is Polynesian language.

I went to 3 local travel agencies to say hello yesterday. Most of people that I met there today were Japanese but they were very fluent in French. I was really surprised at it and impressed.

At noon, we ordered one fish hunbarger at the snack shop. Then I was surprised at the quite big hamburger. That size is nearly same as the face of child. There is tuna and cabbage with mayonnaise in the bread.
About taste!! The bread was fried well so it smelled very nice. There was a bit hard but that was good I felt crisp. It looked such as a Sandwich rather than hamburger.

Please refer to the pictures on the right.

From Tahiti Island in French polynesia

Hello!!

I've just changed the title of this blog now. I've already started my new life.

Finally I've come to Tahiti in French Polynesia 3 days ago to work in Bora Bora Island from 2th of December as staff of marine activities.
I'm staying at my French acquaintance's home in Tahiti Island until the end of this month.
As I said on the previous blog, It took just one year to get here because it was difficult for us Japanese to get French Long Stay Visa. "Just in case, I haven't been being on the airplane all year around." Hahahahaha・・・
As it was written on the travel guide book, 3 Polynesian people welcomed us playing the ukulele.
That really was tropical atmosphere in the airport.

Yesterday I went to Papeete that is the capital of this country to get the staying permission and working permission. I can't understand French at all so my French acquaintance took me to public office. He is quite kind. He learns Japanese hard. I must follow his attidude.
I need to learn both English and French. At least I have to improve my ability of English more and more than now.

Many kinds of food are sold in the market that is located in Papeete. For example fruits, vegetables, snack meals, fish and meet and so on.

At last!!

Good evening!!

At last, I got the working visa of one countory today. It took 11 months until now since I had started action to get the visa.

I'll leave Japan at around the middle of November.

I have to reserve a flight ticket and pick up my parcels from now. Especially, I'm ordering a rice cooker because I like rice better than noodles and breads. As you know, us Japanese has white rice very very often. there is one thing that I noticed when I was looking for a rice cooker to get it this time. It's that some rice cookers don't have any functions to keep the rice warm and timer of starting boiling the rice. Most of all the rice-cookers are sold in Japan have their functions.