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Today I drew a picture of an eagle and here it is:
I drew it at school in break-time.






Also,today at school I saw five people playing different kinds of Japanese traditional instruments.

today I discovered

today I discovered an amazing bug. It was like a dragonfly but it was not it had a eyes on the side
of its head.so I asked my friend that was an expert at bugs and he knew the type but I forgot what
he told me.

This past week...

This week lots of things happened !! the first thing we did is bought fish, and one is going to have babies.

I had day off school because my brother Julian was in hospital. [Note the priorities here :) !] last Sunday, he got sick so we took him to hospital. After the doctor saw him, and we were about to go home, he had a seizure and then had to be kept in for three days... and I stayed at my grandparents' flat for one night.


[Julian had contracted a salmonella-like bug called Campylobacter (probably from a restaurant that served raw and cooked chicken). It took three days of drips and intensive antibiotics to make him better...]

Intermission

[Sorry, we haven't been very active this week. Sean and Julian have both gone down with some bug, and blogging has taken a back seat to recovery... More soon I hope. Nigel]

School in japan (part one)

[This is a dictated message, for a change, rather than self-typed]. School in Japan usually finishes before three o'clock, but we start early, leaving the house at 7:30, my Dad takes me on the first bus and then I go by myself on the second bus, and everyone else goes on the both of the buses or one bus and a train by theirselves. We arrive at school earlier if you take the two buses (around 8:20 am). At school, we do music lessons -- we play a musical instrument called a Pianica. It's a type of short piano keyboard that you blow air into to play and press the keys at the same time. Here's a picture:

Also in school, we're going to have a concert soon. I'm going to play the Pianica. But in the beginning, we sing three songs [a medley?] that the school very cleverly stuck together, and one song right at the end with all of us singing, and on all of the songs stuck together all of the classes sing each of the songs.

Once at school, a bird banged into the window, and fell into the plant pot. And we called the science teacher and he took it to the sickroom and they took care of it but it died...

The school is quite high up in the mountain, so there are hundreds of wild boars!!! The male ones have fangs (!) and the female ones don't. And we saw four when we were waiting at the bus stop near our school: there was two adults, one baby and one kid (or what they're called).

Crab hunting

Today we dashed to the beach [after another visit to the onsen] to find crabs and we found three crabs one small one medium one big! but my dad got pinched by the big one. So very bravely, my mum picked it up and put it in the container.[Below is a picture of Maiko beach, where we found all the crabs].