Novita's posts with tag: sidora-chan
|  | Tanabata or Festival of the Stars is a Japanese festival celebrated on July 7th. The festival is based on the Legend of Tanabata and celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). They are two lovers separated by a river of stars (the Milky way), and can only meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.
People celebrate Tanabata by writing wishes or poetry on a small piece of paper and hanging them on bamboo trees. The bamboo trees were also decorated with origami and other paper decorations.
This is Sidra's bamboo trees with his own handmade paper decorations and wishes that he made at school. According to the writing on the paper, Sidra wishes to be Anpanman when he grows up.
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 Today is Sidra's first day in his new kindergarten. The backpack, little bag for inside shoes, coat, and hat are provided by the school. We've bought him canvas inside shoes from a shoe store nearby and some colourful eating utensils from Ikea. Every single things, down to his toothbrush, has to be labelled with his name and class. So I learnt how to write his name and class in Japanese.
To my surprise, he didn't shed a single tear when I left him in school this morning. Just a little clutch on my sleeves, a bit of sweet talk from the teacher (in Japanese, which neither of us could understand anyway), and off he went to play with other kids. I thought I almost burst out with pride.
I walked home by myself, and suddenly realized that it was the first time I walked alone in Japan.
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