First Day of School

Well it is finally here the kids first day of school at Iruma Tooyou Shogako. We are home schooling but the city and the school has allow us to have a relationship together. The kids will go one day a week for language lessons. Nathan wants to go two days the second being P.E. and Art his two all time favorite subjects. Funny I think those were mine too. The nut doesn't fall far from the tree as grandpa says.
The kids had to wear funny hats and white play shoes. They are strict here. MCA teachers in Costa Mesa would flip thier wig to see how their assemblies go. Each time a new speaker was announced there was the call for Kiritsu! and the children would jump to there feet and stand at attention. Then the command "Rei" (Ray) would come and all the kids bowed in unison. It was like a military school. My kids aren't used to the bowing to the teacher stuff. They do the funky chicken bow unsure of what they are supposed to do. Pray for the kids we met today that we'd be able to foster more relationships with them. We met many of the boys from Nathan's class after school and played a great game of ball tag. The mom's giggled as a debu man ran around with children dodging a ball. Mihoko came out and blessed the mom's with some fresh oranges that Obaa Chan sent us. They were so happy and indicated they would like to take an English class. Pray as things are beginning to roll along. God bless