A Glass of Juice after Work, Iran
NISHINO Mari
Project formulator (Project for Rise-based Agriculture Development in Afghanistan)
Hearing from a colleague saying about a good shop, we had a walk to a small town after work. The town in the evening comes to life with a lot of people after school or work and for shopping.
Expecting how it was, we arrived a juice shop with a many fruits and vegetables arranged beautifully – colorful with bananas, apples, pineapples, kiwis, carrots, aloes.
My colleagues ordered something like a parfait with diced apples, kiwis and bananas covered with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and honey, and I had a blended juice of carrots, aloe pulps and bananas. It tasted so good that the juice stand was crowded with men’s groups and families, saying as if “This is the one after work!”
Later, I went for a walk in a holiday afternoon and had persimmons for juice. I had half deliciously at the juice stand, and brought the rest home because I felt full, then had it in the evening after keeping in the refrigerator, but it was too bitter to drink. I wondered if it was because it was blended with the whole skin, but I still don't know why.