[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).
4 comments:
Hi, Sean! Are the wild boars dangerous? Also, do you have more work at the Japanese school than you did at the British school?
Hi Sean, I likeyour pianica. My father used to play the harmonica and it reminds me of it. I am glad you like music and singing, because we sing a lot.Ask your mother if she remembers us singing all the time. Hugs Lynn
The pianica is interesting - do you have to blow the air in with your mouth? If you do, it must be like the bagpipes, where you have a big sack to store the air in, before it goes down the pipes to make the sounds. Good luck with the concert. If you like playing, maybe you could bring one back to England? Maybe your Mum and Dad would not approve!
Hi Sean.
There was a wild boar on two nights near our flats - but not nearly as attractive as the one in your picture.
We enjoyed meeting you and your younger brother on Sunday. I know you liked the Welsh cakes. If you want to make some, here's the recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes
/database/welshcakes_67264.shtml
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