Nostalgia-- Hoshi

I'd like to share my daughter Wakaba's performance on stage playing the Hoshi ( Star ) at the schools Christmas show during her kindergarten days . You can find my post about her Christmas show at school here and here. Haruka will be performing the same part this weekend at her school and her big sister is teaching her songs during their bath time at the warm ofuro. Sometimes I would hear echoes of them from the kitchen performing all the characters played by the two of them lol! I dunno why but they don't want us see them rehearsing. And maybe you're wondering why I'm in and out of blogosphere again, it's because mums will be on stage too and was busy practicing songs to be sang on Saturday. So wish us luck! ^_^

Isn't it so much fun to go back and just yank them all out and just sit there and reminisce? ^_^

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PBW--Wakaba's Graduation Ceremony

---Wakaba's Graduation Day was held inside the chapel at school---



The Japanese school year ends in March and Wakaba graduated from Kindergarten last March 20, 2010. Graduation Ceremony is one of the most important events at kindergarten and we are a proud parents of Wakaba!! The Graduation Ceremony wasn't too long because they only have small class size ( only 13 graduates )---the Graduates sang songs and lil speech and a speech coming from the teachers, too. I almost cried when the main part of the ceremony comes in and Wakaba went to receive the graduation certificate from the school principal/Director. I know, it's only kindergarten but I can't help it. My heart is bursting with gladness! What a delight to see Wakaba and her classmates receiving the symbols of their achievement!



---Wakaba, before the ceremony starts---

---speech coming from the Kindergarten Graduates to their loving Parents, Teachers, Principal, and Friends---

---classmates and Mariko sensei---

---soon-to-be-classmates-at-kinder and soon-to-be-classmates-at-gradeschool---

---Together with Wakaba's bestfriend, Reano chan--

---A face of a happy Mom!---

---Proud Parents of Wakaba with Haruka---



We went out to to celebrate and went ahead to my PIL's place coz the whole family want to spend the momentous event with us.^_^

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Wakaba's Christmas Stage Play

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Wakaba had their Christmas Stage Play at their school before Christmas Day--forgive me but the mother in me have this feeling of proudness as I watched my daughter Wakaba performing on stage. She have done her role perfectly without freezing although she was a lil bit nervous as she told me before she went on stage. I could still remember that she went home very sad one day--poor Wakaba wanted the role of Mary but she lost only one point of the vote of her classmates. She practiced her roles very well that even her sister Haruka have memorized the lines and songs. She played the role of the narrator, the angel and a "yadoyasan"( a lady role in which Mary and Joseph asking for shelter and went to door to door but always get refused )and has a lot of exposure during the play. And since Japan isn't a Christian country, not all Japanese knows the story in Bethlehem. The school Principal/Director tells the story ( of the birth of Jesus ) so that everyone will have an introduction of every scene is all about . The children played their part very well and it is very enjoyable musical production and their costumes is simple and yet cute. They sang Christmas carols and of course, in Japanese! Acting out the Christmas story in a musical form is a wonderful way to instill the love and joy of Christmas! ^_^

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