A Day Spent in Chiba City
本更新は英語表記のみとなっております。
This article is written in English only.
Our destination was Chiba City.
The group consisted of these two and the facility director—known to our international staff and their families by his Japanese title, "Encho."
Yes, the same trio from last July’s business trip to Manila was finally reunited.
We headed to the Makuhari International Training Center to pay a courtesy visit to 2025 EPA certified care worker candidates, who had arrived in Japan just ten days earlier.
Since their training in Makuhari will continue until early December, we couldn’t simply leave them on their own.
This visit was, above all, to give them a proper welcome.
They requested pork ramen for lunch, so we lined up at Chiba-ya, a well-known shop near our destination, and waited for forty minutes.
Later, when I mentioned it to a friend living in Chiba City, they told me the place is so famous that they were genuinely jealous we got to eat there.
After lunch, we headed to Chiba Zoological Park.
Although our driver is from Yokohama, he had only visited the zoo once before.
Our “one-sided” interpreter was also visiting the zoo for the very first time and was far too excited to be of any use as a guide.
So Encho took the lead in navigating the walking route.
In fact, he had just visited the park three months earlier with the baby boy of his Vietnamese “daughter.”
All in all, the six hours flew by.
There was even a small incident where a smartphone went missing on the way back, but the trip was enjoyable nonetheless.
Above everything, the best part was seeing how much the candidates enjoyed the zoo.
