One of our classes every week is at the Takikawa Kindergarden. We play with the kids in the morning and “try” to teach them English in the afternoon. They are the most adorable things ever but it can be quite exhausting at times. The kindergarden is right beside a temple run by the Izumi family. The Izumi family are our students as well as our guarantor.

We teach at the kindergarden (It’s called “youchien” in Japanese) every Friday. Here’s a video clip from our first day, the whole school gathered together in the gym for a special ceremony for Sam & Raf’s departure and our arrival.

Yes I know, they are adorable!!!

(There’s also a part one of the video where Izumi-san — the priest of the temple and the owner of the youchien — introduced the ceremony)

Later on, all the students formed a tunnel with their little hands together and we crawled through the crazy kid tunnel to complete the ceremony. (We have photos of this from the youchien and we’ll try to scan them at 7-11)

p.s. by the way, apparently kindergarden is supposed to be spelled kindergarten?! What?!