Shogako
A Whaling-good “Where’s Walker?”
You liked "Where's Walker?" So here is another one...hope you get a whale-sized splash of enjoyment out of this one as well.
Kawamura Festival
Pictures from the Kawamura School Festival.
Fly me to the moon…in a paper airplane?
The grand art of origami continues. The girls not only fold well known shapes, but teach each other their most recently learned or discovered sequence. There is a deligence and devotion akin to the effort put into learning new kanji. Teachers frequently encourage their students to “be the brush” when they practice their kanji. This supposedly takes their writing to calligraphy level heights with Edo-style skill - doing things with no wasted motion. The same principle applies to origmai, where “being the paper” seems to magically ease the folds.
Undokai 2008
Last weekend was my daughter’s school’s annual undokai - sports day. Her school falls into, what is loosely translated as, an elevator school. This means that once you gained admittance, you may continue in that school up to its highest level. Her school has its own yochien program (three year kindergarten program) [...]
