This blog is for my school’s course Each One Teach One, or for short, EOTO. I'm a first year student in business administration in Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences. In this EOTO-course, there are five of us and we plan to meet every once in a while, and do all fun things: cook Finnish and Japanese foods, go shopping, go around the city and visit different places etc. We want to learn about each other’s cultures and languages, and I’m kind of looking forward to practice my English and Japanese skills. We have already met two times and next I’m going to tell a little bit about our first two meetings. Sadly I don’t have many photos since at the time I didn't know I was going to write a blog for this course, but from now on I’m going to take many photos, since they make writing blog much more fun. My English isn't always the best, but I hope I don’t make too many mistakes!
How
I met Mayu and Rika?
I’m interested in going to
Japan as an exchange student, so in the beginning of fall semester when I heard
someone talking in Japanese on the bus stop when I was on my way to home, I was
pretty excited! So yes, I first met Mayu and Rika on a bus stop at the centre
of Jyväskylä. At first I didn't have the courage to say anything to them, and
to be honest, I was quite nervous. On the bus I realized that this might be my
only change to talk to them, so I gathered up courage and asked if they were from
Japan. Turned out that they were, and they were indeed studying in Jamk, so we
decided to add each others as friends in Facebook. A few days afterwards I met
Mayu and Rika with Tiia, my classmate, in Jamko café, and we discussed various
things, and later decided that we should take the EOTO-course. Mayu and Rika
also told us that Jonas is interested taking EOTO-course with us, so we decided
to form a small group, and take the course together. We made a group in Facebook,
so that communication would be easier, and then decided when the first EOTO
meeting would be held.
30th
September 2012
We decided that we would bake
cinnamon rolls on the first meeting, since they are quite traditional Finnish
buns. We held the first meeting in Mayu's apartment, in Roninmäki. I brought
all necessary equipment with me to Roninmäki, and then we all went to Keljo's
Prisma by Jonas’ car and bought necessary ingredients. As we shopped Mayu and
Rika asked a few questions about Finnish products, such as which is milk and
which is sour milk, what kind of cookies are good and so on. After we finished
shopping we went back to Roninmäki and started baking. I made the paste quite
quickly, and then we all sat down and chatted for about 30mins, while the paste
rose. When we started making the cinnamon rolls, I first showed Mayu and Rika
how to make them, and then both of them took turns and tried making them too.
All of the cinnamon rolls turned out really good and tasty!
Mayu and Rika liked
them a lot, so I was happy. We sat down, drank some tea and ate many, many
buns. We talked about various things, and made a little word list of the
ingredients in Finnish. Mayu and Rika also wanted the recipe for cinnamon
rolls, so we promised to translate it for them.
4th November 2012
We had talked in Facebook
about when we should meet next time. We decided to meet on Saturday 4th,
at Rika's apartment in Roninmäki. For this meeting we had planned to cook
Japanese dish, okonomiyaki. I had heard about okonomiyaki before, but never
eaten it, so I was really looking forward tasting it. We arrived to Roninmäki
around 13:00 and Mayu was already making some preparations for the food. While
the two girls were cooking, we chatted a little bit, drank some tea and looked
how okonomiyaki was made. It seemed quite simple to do! As Mayu and Rika
finished cooking, we could finally taste the long waited dish, and it was
really good!
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