Saturday, September 23, 2017

Kid Zanina

Back in July, I went to Kid Zania with Ms Kimoto.  Ms Kimoto is a great Japanese teacher at ISS who spent the day with me.  Mom didn't want me to sit around the house while dad had his surgery, she wanted me to go on a fun outing with Ms Kimoto.
Kidzania is an interesting  museum for younger kids so they can select 5 jobs to try out of around 80.  I tried five different Jobs at Kid Zania, including banana farmer , Magician, germ scientist, and salad chef,  but my favorite job was the hip hop instructor. I liked all the kids who participated.
Kidzania is in Tokyo.  I would recommend it to kids  aged 3 to 10 who visit Tokyo.


Hip Hop Class 
The Magic Show 

Banana Farmer 
The Germ scientist 
Muriel the salad chief





























Monday, August 21, 2017

Our Cherry Picking Adventure

Our Family Went Cherry Picking With The Watnabe Family It Was a very Interesting Cherry Picking Adventure. It was a great experience picking Cherries in Japan. The Cherries were supper delicious !


Thursday, August 17, 2017

Interesting experience in Tokyo

Our Family Went To The Tokyo Giants Baseball game With Naoyuki. The Tokyo Giants are quite different from the Sf Giants. They are totaly different because They sing their cheers. And their games they have cheerladers. The one huge difference was that when we saw the Tokyo Giants they were playing in a dome. Another thing that I noticed was that it was very crowded.
Was that we didn't know all The players on The Tokyo Giants But we Recognized one player.
I was very ecxied to go See a Tokyo Giants Baseball Game.

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Diversity at ISS

My school is really interesting because there are so many students that come from all over the world.
Many students come from Japan, and a lot come from Nigeria. Other kids come from Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, India and I come from the US.
The most obvious time to see the diversity was at the International Day at Iss.  
A lot of students bring different types of food from their home countries and they wear different clothing to represent their countries. You could also see some of this diversity at the ISS variety show because of the different styles of dancing and music. 
This has been something that I really enjoy about ISS is getting to know kids from all around the world.  

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

My Visits to Yokohama

I've been to Yokohama three times.  The first time was when we went to meet dad's high school friends. The first time we ate yakiniku for dinner. Yakiniku is a delicious Korean BBQ.

We also went when mom was in Los Angels at a conference. We went to the Landmark Tower and it was a very clear day. We saw all of Tokyo and also Mt. Fuji from the top of the tower.

After we went to the tower, we went to the Cup Noodle museum. We learned a lot of history about the man who made the noodles. He was watching his wife make tempura and he got the idea for how to make dried noodles. My only disappointment was that we didn't make our own noodles.


But we had okonomiyaki for dinner which had noodles.

The most recent time we met the Watanabe family in Yokohama's Chinatown. We were so surprised and we couldn't contain our excitement because we found a panda store. I wish my friend Alix was here in Japan with us because she's crazy about pandas.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

The Fascinating Experience At Iss

My school is very interesting because kids come from all around the world.  Of the approximately 50 kids,  15 kids come from Japan 9 kids come from Nigeria and 4 kids come from the United States and the rest come from Canda, Italy, Mexico, India, Switzerland, South Korea, Denmark, Netherlands, Pakistan,
Every year at Iss they have a traditonal holiday which is called International day which means that all the students could try foods from other countries and their culture.
Yesterday was their annual raffle for gift baskets to see which family would win one of the baskets.
I was really glad that Airi won the bread making workshop with Melisa. I hope Airi will  one day become a professional baker.
It was a very successful International Day.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

The most interesting etiquette in Japan

Here's what our Japanese and culture teacher Mrs. Sato taught us about japanese manners. all the students that were in Japanese and culture did the same assignment. We were split into different groups. each group chose which manners they wanted to cover in their video. the First day we had to pick a director, our director was Hana because she did a lot of acting.  our group agreed that we should chose Hana. I think Ken M had the second most  difficult  because he had to act like a student that didn't know about the Japanese manners. There are always right ways to do that manner and there is informal way of doing each of the manners.
Here are some examples that we included in our video:
Don't walk so slowly in Japan because its very rude.
Jesse told Ken that he should walk more quickly. Its often quite common to do when people are in a hurry.
Don't  talk on the phone when you are on public Transportation because it will disract others that are around
Don't talk so loudly when you are on the train because it will desract others that are around.
Its quite common in Japan for  people to greet other people even if you don't know them.
When you enter a building in Japan you have to take off you shoes Some places where are  School buildings,  houses, temples and shrines. but on specific example is the gorcey stores department stores