Soba Party

     The O.P.D. of my hospital was closed Dec. 29th at noon. The work this year was done. At lunch time all the members of my hospital got together at the cafeteria and held a Soba party. Soba is kind of a noodle made from wheat flour. Soba was used to collect gold flour in making gildings. When you make gildings, gold pigment would be scattered on your work table. Soba was used to stick and collect gold flour. We began to think that soba could collect gold and make us rich. In Japan there is a custom of eating soba at the end of the year hoping that the coming year would be a lucky year.