Learning lots of ways–KCP summer term, 2010

Here are some photos from the students in Tokyo at KCP International.  They cover 2 events–making chicken curry and the Tanabata festival.

We all love curry, so this is a good dish to learn.  We’re cutting vegetables here–something most of us have done before.

Cooking rice is not as simple as you’d think. The Rice Master bestows his wisdom on us.

The best part is eating the curry.  We all went back for more, and there was none left when we were done.

Tanabata  (七夕, Evening of the seventh) is a Japanese star festival.   It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). Legend says the Milky Way, a river of stars, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

The celebration is held at night.  People write their wishes on a piece of Tanabata paper (strips of colored paper) and hang them, usually on long bamboo branches.

This student’s wish is a secret!  (Are all wishes secrets?  Are all secrets wishes?)