{"id":14697,"date":"2026-04-18T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14697"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:57:09","slug":"lisa-lu-volunteering-at-demachi-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/lisa-lu-volunteering-at-demachi-salon","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Lu: Volunteering at Demachi Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-590x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-590x787.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-193x257.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6883-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">At Demachi Salon, I led activities (Chinese, English, Ink painting, etc.) for a group of elders that come to this elderly care center. Throughout the 2 hour session, we would start with a casual chat while they do their daily health check ins, then I lead the activity of the day, we go on a virtual trip to places in Japan, daily exercise, and games at the end. I really had a lot of fun talking to the obaachans,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">and they were incredibly nice and warm to young people. The experience really made me appreciate the multigenerational connection. If you like interacting with or want to help elders, I think this would be the perfect place to practice your Japanese! But one advice would be to be aware that a lot of the elders speak Kansai dialect, which can make it hard to understand them at first.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0At Demachi Salon, I led activities (Chinese, English, Ink painting, etc.) for a group of elders that come to  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/lisa-lu-volunteering-at-demachi-salon\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":766,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14697"},"categories":[184,6,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14699,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions\/14699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}