Japanese school is held on Saturdays during the school year and Friday/Saturday during the summer. We weren't sure whether the school teaches the kids English or whether it teaches them regular grade-level material in Japanese. The latter was true. The program was a combination of plays put on by each grade level and project reports. We were the only non-Japanese people in attendance (out of about 100 people), except one white dad! :)
The entire program was conducted in Japanese and we did not understand a word! It was entertaining at first, because the 1st and 2nd graders performed plays that were folklore tales that the boys recognized. Once they got to 3rd grade, we understood less and less. The whole experience was very entertaining, even though we did not get much out of it! The most important thing is that we showed support for our friends. We are so glad that we took the time for this once in a lifetime experience!
Ruyki's class - 1st grade: (He is the 5th from the left - a cat!)
A rabbit had a hard time pulling the carrot out of the ground & kept going back to find more friends to help!
2nd grade performed a story about 10 red fish and 1 black one...
Taiki (far right) & 2 other 3rd graders presented a project about recycling:
We did not understand a thing about this 4th grade skit, which included some sort of origami store, a ninja and an origami swan getting into a boat and a bulldog. lol
Fuma (far right) and the 5th graders performed a skit that we didn't understand either, but he had a weapon of sorts and defeated all of the enemies.
Truman and Ruyki were thrilled to be together - as always!!
1 comment:
That is so funny!
Looks like a lot of fun even if you didn't understand much.
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