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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Back to School Night


Ms. Tsukamoto and Tanaka Sensei were both very gracious last night in spending time with all the parents at Rosa Parks JBBP for Back to School Night. Nora is doing well in kindergarten, and already knows lots of words and songs, and some hiragana characters.

Nora's drawing is the one in the bottom left corner, with the long dangly earrings. Just click the photo to enlarge and see her rendition of her name in Japanese. Yes, she can already write her name in Japanese too! After just about one month in school. It looks like this:


One website translated it as "The kanji used to write your name mean: Ability, Fine Silk. Meaning: You are a beautiful princess clothed in fine silk who abounds with great ability and achieves whatever she sets her mind to." Hmmmm... sounds like my Nora to me!

Posted: 9/19/2007 06:22:00 AM

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