Let it snow…
It snowed in Tokyo today….It was snowing when I woke up just before 8am and was still snowing in Kichijoji at 2pm until it turned to rain…
I am not sure when the sight of snow will stop turning me giddy with excitement but being an Aussie girl from QLD who had not seen snow until 19 it just feels I have a lot of snow viewing to catch up on!
Tokyo rarely sees snow even in the height of winter…and some years it will not snow at all!
Shumpei had my camera….for a work project which meant I couldn`t take any photos…BUT i did take the following on the school camera (Actually Ai took the first one)
School garden- Probably the only time this year it will be covered in snow (This was taken at 10am too, there was a lot more snow on it by 2pm)
Girly girls checking out the yard
The girl in the middle and the girl on the end with the white jacket whose face you can`t see speak English very well….with mini Australian accents. They also call each other sweetie since I tend to call them that
Conversation from the other day
`Asuka, can you pick up the blue one sweetie`
`Sure sweetie`
`Thanks sweetie`
They might be taking it a little bit far!
Since it snowed or rained all day we couldn`t take the kids outside to plan in it (Since no child in Tokyo really wears water proof snow gear to school) so we put some in a container from outside so that they could play with it on top of the tables in the craft room. There were mini snow ball fights, snowman and one girl who put some on the floor, took off her inside shoes and socks and walked on it `To see what it felt like….The kids loved it! The snow will all be gone by morning due to the rain and 3 degree temps.
I would not be surprised if we don`t see any more snow for the rest of winter!
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I’m a non-skiing Brit. I’m yet to understand the niceness of snow. It’s pretty - but too bloody cold. How odd you saw it settle - I didn’t! And it snowed IN our college, which was stupidly designed with no sodding roof. BRRRRR!!!!!
jo- No roof? what? What about rain? Crazy!
Little Japanese girls calling each other sweetie is the cutest thing ever!
My real spelling is Sarah!
But since its a popular name, I changed in to Sara for online.
I’m not married yet, but in about another month we will be hanging in the paper work!
Think of the Kobayashi household as your own personal resort. lol
Haha.. thats true by the time you come back from Australia I may be pregnant :X But regardless I’d like to have you and Nay with your respective men.. children etc.
Yaya snow! We haven’t gotten any in Kansai yet.. but its bloody cold >_
Yup. Imagine a square donut! The classrooms - around the edges of the donut have ceilings but because the middle doesn’t it gets bloody cold!
Dear God, those Asian babies make me want to just explode!
I think I need to teach in Japan at some point, how could you resist those faces?! Please hurry up and have a baby with Shun so I can love it
Plus snow, ZOMG, Japan is so obviously the land of my dreams!
Loved the “sweetie” conversation! Could hear it with the Australian accents and all thanks to my two years in QLD.! Made me miss my days of teaching preschool kids in Hirakata, Osaka.
Laura
Very interesting, but I think that you could describe the second part in more details … : - \