JIZAIYA TOUR

The 12th meeting of the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION in AKITA
will take place at JIZAIYA on Saturday 22 May 2010. We shall meet at Mr Donuts at 9.45a.m. and sort out the car transport. Members are reminded to contribute to transport.
All family members are invited.

Please bring wet/dry towels. Something to drink. It’s better if you wear long trousers with good walking shoes. A hat may be advisable, too.

Fees: Adults yen2,000 Children: 5-6 grade yen1,000 Elemenary
1-4 grade Elementary yen700. yen500 for kindergarten children
babies are free.

As JIZAIYA was so successful last year the IWA is making a second visit but with slightly different activities.

We shall be walking out a little on flat countryside. Picking mountain vegetables and later on eating them. Learning about the countryside and vegetation from Mr Kawaii our host and owner of Jizaiya. We may be planting rice – I for one am looking forward to this experience.
We shall have a wonderful feast of delicious home made treats after our exercise! We may be making KIRI TAMPO, too!
I really recommend this day out as a wonderful experience and one you will remember for a long time.

Please reply to Mrs JI as soon as possible as we wish to know how many will attend.
Thank you for all your cooperation and we shall have a great day out.
Web page is: http://homepage3.nifty.com/jizaiya/

The 10th Meeting of the IWA

Unfortunately the 9th Meeting of the IWA was cancelled, as there were not enough members to make the visit to the ONSEN worthwhile.

However, the 10th Meeting of the IWA which was held at GINGAKAN German Restaurant in Akita city (Tel: 018-824-1788) on Saturday 20th March 2010 from 7 p.m. WAS A HUGE SUCCESS.

8 members attended. Three ‘husbands’ had courage to join the party, which made the evening even more successful as the conversation shared was wonderful. The food was up to standard with wonderful spare ribs and delicious salads and nibbles. The beer/gin & tonics/wine flowed freely!

Mrs K drove 5 members and Mr & Mrs N arrived on their own. Daiko (drivers) were requested and all parties drove home safely after enjoying eating, drinking and making merry in a relaxed atmosphere.

Since this meeting was so successful there is a request for it to be repeated. I would hope that more members would join next time and take time out to exchange views and get to know each other better.