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PDOT Cooking Class: A Delicious Start

 

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On July 6th nine new JETs, as well as four JAVA volunteers and two JETAA volunteers, participated in the 2012 PDOT cooking class. The menu included chilled somen, okomiyaki and strawberry daifuku. The day turned out to be hot and muggy, but hey, it’s a preview of actual cooking in Japan!

JAVA volunteers demonstrated how to make somen and daifuku.  A couple of participants impressed everybody with their knife skills, while others got a knack in handling mochi dough (hint: cornstarch is your friend)

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A Tearful Final Journey

Recently JETAA partnered with the JCCC in their newly created Toronto Japanese Film Festival to sponsor the movie Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman.

 This story is about the final months of a Japanese salaryman, Tomoaki Sunada, who had retired from the board of directors of the company he worked for his entire life. He had recently been diagnosed with cancer and decided to live life to the fullest until he passed away.

The director of the film is the youngest daughter of Sunada-san. While the film starts and ends with the passing of Sunada-san, it is one of the most heartwarming testaments to life, family and love. A man who had spent his days focused on work and is estranged from his family discovers what is truly important to him — being a husband, father, grandfather and son. However, true to himself and ever the organized Japanese businessman, he begins to document and plan for his passing and types out his “ending notes”.

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PDOT Pub Night 2012

This year’s edition of PDOT pub night was a resounding success. Some 30 promising Toronto JETs-to-be and a handful of hopeful alternate candidates (for whom we’re keeping our fingers crossed) took to the Bedford Academy patio following Saturday’s pre-departure orientation. PDOT was held that day at the Japan Foundation on Bloor Street, and hosted by the Japanese consulate in conjunction with JETAA Toronto.

The kohai cohort were joined by a crew of JETAA members, a number of whom were also present at Pre-departure Orientation, helping out in various roles. In any case, this Yorkville patio was certainly taken by storm with some seventy people in attendance at its most hopping point, including an excellent turnout from JAVA members, representing visitors to Toronto from Japan! The weather was at its June loveliest – all in all, a perfect setting for our new JETs (who left for Tokyo on August 4th) to mingle with alumni of the programme and members of Toronto’s Japanese community.  (more…)

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Post-Hanami Picnic

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On Sunday, May 6th, 2012, members of JETAA Toronto, JAVA, and U of T’s JCSA gathered at High Park for the 6th annual Hanami Picnic. Unfortunately, this year’s weather had been a little warmer than usual in the earlier spring months and the cherry blossoms bloomed weeks ahead of its scheduled time. However, that didn’t stop everyone from enjoying the beautiful weather and turning the event into a Post-Hanami Picnic instead.

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