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Life Onboard |
LAST UPDATE
October 13, 2007
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| October 2, 2007 |
In Pictures – Photo Tour I of Life Onboard |
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Nana and Nezu, both professional salsa dances, perform at the 59th voyage’s first formal dinner. In addition to being a world-class salsa dancer, Nana is also an accomplished vocalist and composer. A passion for Latin music led her to Cuba where she teaches salsa dance and plays in various bands focusing on Cuban music. Nana’s dance partner is Shuhei Nezu, a former cross-country skier turned photographer and dancer. After meeting a Cuban salsa dancer in Finland, he turned his focus to developing his own style of salsa which he has been sharing with Peace Boat participants. |
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Hundred of participants brave the scorching sun and attend salsa classes given by professional salsa dancers Nana and Nezu on Peace Boat’s top deck. Classes held over the next six weeks and will culminate in a large salsa fiesta when Peace Boat visits Santiago de Cuba, Cuba in November. |
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Kitao Madoka, a professional shogi (Japanese chess) player teaches strategy to shogi fans both young and old. A professional for seven years, and the host of her own TV programme on the “Go and Shogi” channel, Ms Kitao is something of a shogi expert. In addition to giving classes onboard, she will organize a tournament. |
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Peace Boat, in collaboration with the Da Nang Youth Union in Viet Nam, is committed to fundraising and building a rehabilitation center for victims of Agent Orange. The 59th voyage is running a “Change for Change” campaign in which participants donate loose change left over from the ports of call. Peace Boat is close to reaching its goal of USD 10,000, with USD 6,082 having already been raised on past voyages. The land for the center has been donated and when enough funds have been established, construction will begin. |
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Julia Chua, a GET teacher from Singapore, gives an entertaining presentation about the city state to participants the night before arrival. Covering the history and culture of the city, participants were surprised to learn of the state’s turbulent past as well as of its current multi-culturalism. Although three-quarters of the total population (4 million) are Chinese, there are significant Malay and Indian minorities. The state has four official languages – English, Mandarin, Tamal and Malay – but the most universally spoken is English. |
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Looking stunning in a homemade pink dress, Hana-chan, an 84 year old participant who is on her ninth Peace Boat voyage, wowed the audience at the 59th voyage’s Talent Show with her nankin-tamasudare, a traditional Japanese story telling method using sticks. Each voyage, Hana-chan aims to master a new skill and lists juggling and plate-spinning among her talents acquired on Peace Boat. Her next challenge is to learn how to whistle using her fingers so she can make music without instruments. She lives by two mottos: ‘If you’re standing still, then you’re going backwards,’ and the following from the first sounds of the Japanese phonetic system.
Kando = to be awed
Kiome = to have interest
Kufu = to have the ingenuity to create
Kenko = to have health
Koigokoro = to always be in love with someone |
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