July 10, 2008: Local Vist (Day 4)
Training Report - Vocational Rehabilitation Course 2008
It was a beautiful day.
Six participants were very excited and ready to work with users of Samegawa Tanpopo-no-ie.
Their first task requested by Director of the facility, was picking up fruits from Japanese apricot (ume) trees. They left the facility together with users and staff by car to perform their morning duty. Apricot yard belongs to the director of the post office and he kindly allowed them to get apricot fruits for free. Though woolly bears often welcomed them, they never stop working.
Tanpopo-no-ie is going to produce the salad dressing by using those apricot fruits.
At lunch time, Japanese noodle “Udon” produced in Tanpopo-no-ie was served. As you can see Udon became the participants' favorite dish.
After lunch, the second task was waiting for all the men. They went to the pumpkin field to cover it with straw. The participants from China, Fiji, and Lao PDR worked so hard that they could accomplish their task very quickly. Meanwhile lady team was in charge of removing stems of apricot fruits inside the facility. They also visited the pumpkin field to observe how the other participants were working together with the users.
Before leaving Tanpopo-no-ie, “question and answer” session was specially arranged by Director of the facility. The users asked many questions to the participants and of course they were very happy to answer all of them.
It is happy to say “hello”, but so hard to say “good-bye” to all the friends at Samegawa Tanpopo-no-ie.
