Princess Mia & mum: My nyuugakushiki

We have't posted for a while 'cos we were busy preparing for Mia's entrance to public school. She will be attending for the month of April.

On Monday I went to my nyuugakushiki at Toneri shogakko. We dressed up and sat there for a long time while some people talked.

The Gym

Slippers only! Everyone has to bring slippers and change into them in the genkan

A cute little girl

First graders lining up

Here they come!

I came through

All the parents are watching and clicking away with their cameras

We walked all the way to the front

The 2nd graders sang us a song

The principle talked to us
The ceremony started at 1:00pm and ended at 3:00 pm. The 1st graders had to stay most of the time and they did pretty good.

Here is my sensei (teacher) leading our class out to our classroom.

This boy is in my class

There were so many parents and kids the classroom was full! It was hard to get inside.

See? It was SO full!

This was on the wall outside my classroom. Isn't it cute? I want to make one.

I got my new, hat, books and lots of papers for mummy & daddy.

There is my teacher showing us how to raise our hands when we say "hai" (yes). She is very sweet.

Waiting around for our class photo. I'm the tallest in the 1st grade, so I always stand at the back of the lines.

Lining up for our photo.

I took this photo of mummy & daddy. Isn't he handsome!

Do you like my curls?

We took a photo in front of the school

It was so pretty because of the sakura

Then some of our friends joined us. The lady in the white suit is Yasuko & the boy next to her is Koga. They are our friends and we visit them and play with them. I like to play with them, she is so, so, so, so funny and it's lots of fun to play with them. The 4 girls in the front are all the same age & they are in 6th grade.
(Mum: We've known Yasuko for a few years and when I asked her what one should wear to a nyuugakushiki she explained in detail, showed me her suit and then when she heard I didn't yet have something to wear, insisted that I borrow one of hers, right down to the pearl jewelry. So very kind of her.)

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