About a week ago Alejandro was invited to do another speech contest! COOL! This one will be in August. We do not know if we will be able to participate but Alejandro is interested in doing so. Also, Alejandro’s school got a hold of me today to ask me if he would do his speech in [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The Speech Contest Adventure Continues
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Young Minds are Amazing
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Young minds are amazing. My 6 year old, Alejandro, is already reading…in Japanese and English! WOW! When we went to see his coach and practice his speech for the contest, the coach wrote his speech in English lettering. He asked her if she would change it to Japanese lettering because Alejandro prefers to read in Japanese. Still he loves [...]
Check out my Slide Show!
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
School Buses in Japan
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From what I have observed, Yochien age school children only ride the school buses in Japan. Once children graduate from Yochien and start elementary school then they start to walk to school. The Yochien that I chose allows for children age 2 1/2 to 6 years old. For a long time I just dropped my children off at [...]
Gazing at the Stars – Spirited Away
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday our family packed our jackets into the car and headed to the great outdoors to be able to do some star-gazing with our telescope. We left at about 8pm. We headed to a park up in the hills which we have nicknamed the “Ninja Park.” Once we got to the “Ninja Park” we discovered that [...]
Alejandro and the Japanese Speech Contest Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The day of his contest we woke up and had a good breakfast. Then we headed to the town’s grand concert hall. We arrived early as was requested of us. Then we waited. We were happy to run into friends to wait with. The waiting area was filled with many students/contestants and their parents. Each contestant was excited. Some [...]
Alejandro and the Japanese Speech Contest Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently a friend of mine called and asked if my oldest child Alejandro would be interested in participating in a Japanese/English speech contest. She and I both have children the same age and our children are best friends and they go to Yochien together. In this contest Japanese children would be speaking in English and American children would be speaking in Japanese. I left the [...]
Our Garden Yard
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Japanese people love nature. Yards are generally small here (Japan is small but there are a lot of people here). My town here in Iwakuni is like the size of Eagle River, Alaska but twice the amount of people. Basically it is countryside Japan. Still, it is crowded compared to countryside America. Nonetheless they take great [...]
