When we came back home, breakfast was ready. My wife didn't know what to prepare for them, and cooked both Japanese and western-style food. I heard some foreigners didn't like the smell of miso (fermented soybean paste) soup, which is one of the most traditional Japanese soups. I should've asked them about their preferences before coming to Japan via e-mails. After they left for the next place where their concert would be held, we thought that it was an option to serve Okonomiyaki or Takoyaki, which were the representative Japanese fast foods. It might be fun to cook such food with them over chatting. We are thinking of serving Okonomiyaki or local dishes in Ehime prefecture, if we have another guest from a foreign country in the future. We're afraid that he or she'd hate the dish, but in such a case, we may prepare a small amount of bread or something.
One of our guests was born in Colombia and lived in Freiburg. It was regrettable that I didn't know much about his country. Even the spelling of Colombia was new to me. I didn't know it until I wrote this entry. I took it as Columbia for a long time. I barely remembered the name of the capital city, Bogota, while talking with him. The news from Colombia is almost always bad news, like abductions and the production of illegal drugs. However, he was a really nice guy. As I wrote again and again in my blog, there're both good and bad people in every country. I want to enjoy chatting with those good people in the world.
The picture shows our guests, my wife, Annlie and me at the entrance. We didn't have a tripod and the camera was placed on the brick wall. My wife couldn't get a day off, and so Annlie and I took them to several places. I'm showing some pictures in the following entries with complete comments that we couldn't provide them with at the scene.
After taking a picture, we visited Dogo Spa, which is the most ancient hot spring in Japan, and Ishite-ji temple, on the Shikoku 88 pilgrimage. Then, we got together with other members of Jazzchor Freiburg at Matsuyama Castle Park. I took some funny pictures here too and I'll post them. Please wait for them with anticipation.
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