Colleen and Liam both gave speeches at school this week. Liam gave his in his classroom so we were not able to see his. I heard he did a great job. His speech was all in Japanese. One student from each grade was selected to read their speech in front of the entire class. Colleen was selected for her class. Kate was able to attend and tape her speech. Her speech was also in Japanese. Both children's language skill has really improved in the last six months. In Colleens speech she is talking about her experience coming to Japan. You may have to turn the volume up a little to hear it as the video is a little quite. Also Kate didn't turn the video off immediately at the end because she was excited Colleen did so well so there is a little bit of extra footage.
Back when Warren was in Japan, he and the children planted a garden. One of the many different things they planted was Daikon. Finally Liam was able to harvest one of his. We have not yet eaten it, but it is huge. Hopefully it is also tasty. We will find out soon.
This weekend I wanted to enjoy some time with the children, so we headed to the playground that was at the art park that I went to a few months back. The park has a fun playground and the huge roller slide. Last time I went it was with Warren and Jim. Kate and the children were not there so I wanted them to have a chance to enjoy the park. While walking to the playground we passed some of the artwork. Colleen posed with this huge dog collar.
Step 1 is to get a cushion to sit on. Typical roller slides don't have a cushion, but I think because this one is so long it would cause pain by the time you got to the bottom if you didn't sit on one.
Step 2 is walking up a big tower to the start point. There are many colorful windows on the way up.
Step 3 is to ride the bottom...
It is a lot of walking to get to the top. I think the children did it about 3 times.
The playground has a number of other things to have fun on.
Many of the parks in Japan have zip lines. The children always enjoy them. I always wanted one as a child, so on occasion I will give them a go as well.
They also had this huge bouncy thing. I am not sure what is under it, but it looks like a white tarp stretched over a huge balloon. We jumped on if for probably a half an hour before moving on.
While the children were jumping, Kate went for a drink of water. I looked over to see a huge geyser of water shooting probably 15 ft in the air and Kate standing with a strange look on her face. Apparently she turned it on full blast and this one really had some water pressure. Fortunately it did not blast her contacts out. The picture is after she figured it out.
Now that we are approaching fall I have noticed a lot of spiders around. They make huge webs. While at the part we found this big one near a tree. Some of them are pretty colorful. For the most part I just try to stay away from them. I would hate to walk into one of these webs.
Hope everyone has a good week...
1 comment:
Elise Green (from mrs saksa's class)says hello, and she enjoyed your speech, Colleen! Very impressive! We've been enjoying the updates, thank you for sharing.
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