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26 participating youth from Thailand in the Friendship Program for the
21st Century (FP21C) 1998
: Agriculture group
In 1998
winter I was sent by the Thai government to be one of the participating
youths in the FP21C : Agriculture group. All of my batch friends were
from the agricultural field such as agriculturer , university instructor
in agriculture or any career concerned. After we had a training course
in D'ma Pavillion hotel Bangkok for a week , we flew to Tokyo by the
Japan airlines. And from that time..our adventure in Japan started!!!
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When we arrived Japan ,
we stayed at the TYC (Tokyo Youth Center) for a week. Main schedule were
orientation , studying about Japan culture , way of life and especialy
the neccessary Japanese language for daily life. After class , we always
had time to go out for something called "Tokyo surviving"!!!
Almost every day that I went to Shinjuku , Akihabara , Shibuya and etc.
Left :
Before went out , we took picture with sun-glasses. (There was no reason
, just for fun!!!)
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One of our favorit
activities in Tokyo is the interction with local youth. Each Py will
accompany with 2 local youths and went around Tokyo together for
Japanese way of life studying. I met Satoe Suzuki and Mieko Miyauchi ,
the lovely and kind local youths who took me to many interesting
places.We still be friend until nowaday and we always meet each other
every time they visited Thailand or I visited Japan.
Left : (from
left) Satoe , me and Mieko at the front of the famous Asakusa Temple in
Tokyo.
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The Japanese way of
life is very interesting. Tradition and high technology can stay
together harmoniously. They conserve nature and culture , and mix to
their life. When I walked around Asakusa area, I found that every where
was so clean. People was friendly. They did teh best to help us when we
lost the way although they can not speack English or we can speak
Japanese just a few. (only neccessary words)
Left :
Market in the Asakusa area in 1998. I went there again in 2003 , it's
not changed so much.
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One of our mission in
Tokyo is moving!
We moved from TYC after stayed for a week of orientation to the Nippon
Senenkan. We carried our belonging , made a line walking along the road
for 10 minutes to the meeting point with the bus. Walking in the
Japanese way of daily life!! But fortunately , weather in Japan is not
so hot. Someone said kidding that if we did like this in Bangkok summer
, we might be dead before reach the meeting point!!!
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Nippon Senenkan is some
kind of hotel for youth. It's big and full of neccessary facilities.We
stayed 2 persons a room. But after unpack the baggage , we changed our
cloths to the Yukata (free service in room) and come to enjoy meeting.
That's so fun to see many people who were non-Japanese faces in Yukata
like this!
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