Day-9 First day of Ramadhan in Japan : Preparation for Final Presentation

Today we have preparation for our final presentation, before finishing our TWINCLE program in Japan, tomorrow we have to give presentation of our experience which we get from this program.

Today is also the first day for Ramadhan fasting, we do our activity as usual. The special thing for our first day fasting in Japan is we must do fasting for 16.5 hours (from 02.30 am to 19.00 pm) with summer weather about 33^ocelcius. In our country, we just do fasting for 14 (from 04.00 am – 18.00 pm) hours. Even it felt very tough but we must do our obligation to our religion.

Besides prepare our last presentation, our activity today is looking for some souvenir which we will give to our family and friends in Indonesia.

In the evening we end our fasting together in some restaurant closes Inage Station namely “Yoshinoya”. We ate Japanese food, “Gyudon”, which is rice mixed with beef. After that we have Tarawih praying together in one of the rooms of the members because there is no Mosque close to our dormitory.

Our second last day in Japan became more wonderful because after Tarawih praying, we have a food party afterwards with Indonesian friends from Universitas Indonesia, Udayana, as well as Japanese friends. Together, we cook Indonesian and Japanese food and eat together.

Tomorrow is the last day for our TWINCLE activity in Japan. But actually it is quite sad that we have to leave Japan. So many memories with all good friends, so many experiences and knowledge. Hopefully it will be useful for our future...

Nour Eka Jayanti