Sunday
we attended the annual international exchange society’s new year party. Hard to
believe this is the fourth we’ve attended! (2012, 2013, and 2014).
Ted
made a crock pot of baked beans, a typical American dish that many Japanese
people haven’t tasted. There was a lot
of delicious food!
After being welcomed to the party, we all filled our
plates.
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| My plate |
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| table decorations |
After
eating and eating, the game playing began.
First we played a fun gambling game. Each person started with a ten yen
coin and did the Japanese version of rock paper scissors with someone
else. The winner took the loser’s coin
and the loser lined up behind the winner. This went on with the losers lining
up behind the winners into longer snake-like lines until there were just two winners with
lines. One of the two lost and the other
took all of the ten yen coins. I lost my
first round, but Ted was winning for quite a long time until he lost.
Next we
played bingo. Everyone seemed to really like this simple game. There were many
prize bags that bingo winners could choose from. Ted won a bottle of soy sauce and I won a
fancy box of chocolates.
We
wrote New Year’s resolutions on a paper shaped like a house with Japanese
pictures on it and taped it to the wall at the beginning of the party. After bingo, we read our resolutions.
Soon
after that it was time to go home. It was a great international get-together
with people from Japan, the US, Canada, and Italy.
