Clara had her entrance ceremony for primary school on Friday the 6th of April. Her new school is called Higashi Hagiyama Elementary School and her class teacher is called Kumiko Sakurai. Sakurai sensei seems to be very nice and she smiled at all her new students right through the ceremony. Some of the other teachers looked quite harsh, so Clara has been lucky.Class sizes in Japan can be up to 40 students. However, as the total number of new students at Clara's school amounted to 83, they had to be divided into 3 classes. Clara is now student number 19 in class 1-3. Every student has a number. I'm much happier that Clara is in a class with 28 students rather than in a class of 40, for obvious reasons.
It was excellent to see the cherry blossoms all around the school building and a great photo opportunity.One thing that I didn't like was some minor criticism directed at Clara's new teacher from some of the other parents. They were complaining that she was speaking too quietly. She was obviously nervous having 28 new students in front of her and over 30 parents looking on. I just thought that the first day of class was when the teacher deserved a bit of support, as opposed to some fairly audible criticism. Parent power is really strong in Japan - too strong.
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Anyway, I am optimistic that Clara will be happy in her new school and make lots of friends. The boy who sits beside her seems to be a real character so it will be interesting to see how they get on. I'm expecting a lot of interesting stories from Clara. 
For the next 2 weeks, Clara will attend school from 8am to 11am. We are worried about her walking to and from school alone but I guess that's all part of growing up. Good luck Clara! Please follow this link if you wish to see more pictures of Clara's first day at school.I will try and do a new blog soon to tell you about our apartment in Tokyo.
14 comments:
Great pics etc, but perhaps your blog could maybe do with a little more "banter" on your next posting.
Blossom trees are all very well, but we all want to know your tales of bikes, birds and booze.
I'll see what I can come up with. Apologies.
That never happened my little FLH.
Oh yeah, it slipped my mind.
In Japan it's polite to crap in an onsen. It is meant to show that the temperature of the water has enabled complete and utter relaxation, to the point where you are non longer self conscious about crapping yourself.
Similar to the night after Bash's 21st birthday party. Do you remember what you did to yourself (and your Dad's kilt) that night?
Clara's neighbour looks a cheeky chappy!!!! So nice to write a comment and know it is not going to be deleted!
I'm disappointed that comment moderation is no longer in my hands.
Why is it no longer in your hands?
Kane, Clara looks gorgeous, so grown up. Who'd have thought that such a beauty could come from such a scrote like you?
That's the result of long hours of plastic surgery. When she was born, the doctors thought that she was a gargoyle that had fallen from the hospital roof.
Because some of the comments have been deleted without my knowledge.
Ooh, a mystery. Seems the author deleted them; who was it? Were they salacious?
They were neither salacious or ribald. I don't know who had them deleted......hmmm.
No prizes for guessing who the deleted posts are from, right?
Some lovely photos there Kane, I hope she's still enjoying her new school.
Things in Shimogo are the same as ever, I'm enjoying the warmer weather though! I hope you're all well.
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