I woke up with a start. I didn’t even now that I was inside an airplane, so I said “hey, did we abort the plane already?” So I said to myself “Mama mia, papa pia, baby’s got a diarrhea.” Mama and I had breakfast on the airplane at 7:00 or 6:00, I forgot. We landed at 8:00 in Kansai International Airport. The date was Monday, November 23rd. From the airport, we went by bus to Himeji and there we saw my Japanese grandparents. On the first day I didn’t have to go to school, I could just rest. I saw Nanaka, my cousin, she is now nine years old (I am eight years old). Her birthday is May 9th.
The second day I went to school. Everyone was so happy because I was back.
From the third day I went to school as usual, studied math, Japanese, art, music, etc. One day we had a race, we all had to run about one kilometer around a sports field. I was 68th.
Japan is very beautiful, but they have to improve on the garbage and the dog poo and clean it up.
The weather in Japan was very cold.
In Japan the most important holiday is O-shogatsu, this is New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. All my cousins came, even some of their parents came. When everybody came at night, we had a very big party with lots of crabs, which actually my Canadian grandmother doesn’t like or else she will vomit or something like that. The people all said “let’s work hard even this year, 2010.” I went to sleep at 9:00 with mama. On New Year’s Day, I woke up with a start. I went to eat breakfast with my Japanese grandparents and I received more than Y10,000, I felt very happy because now I am richer than before.
We came back to Singapore on January 3rd, I was sweating a lot because it’s so hot in Singapore, although it was raining. We took a taxi and came back home. After supper, I opened my Christmas presents, most of them were Tintin books. One of them was actually a Star Wars toy, it was the Millenium Falcon Lego set. Actually, I really wanted one toy and the rest were books.
This hero is 18 metres tall. He has a rocket, he is a very old character from Japanese comic books, his name is Tetsujin Number 28. First of all, I climbed about one metre on the foot part, it was made of iron. I went there with my Japanese grandmother and my mother.
We went to Himeji castle one day to see a view, it was very beautiful. Can you believe that a castle could stand at least 400 years?! I went there with Edwin and Watanabe-san, our friends from living in Singapore.
One day we made sticky rice cakes (mochi), which Japanese make every winter. My five cousins helped, they were Yuuta, Nanaka, Haruka and Shiota. Yuuta is ten years old. Nanaka is nine years old, Haruka is 13 years old, and Shiota is three years old.
On January 17th, I woke up with a start. I got into my uniform, brushed my teeth, combed my hair, etc. So we called a taxi and we go to Turf City, where we had a softball tournament, at 6:45. Then we had a softball practice at 8:00 sharp. We then had a game, but we lost. After that, we had another game. This Coconuts got 10 points, and Little Stars got 13 points. But in this game, we were actually very strong. After the first inning we were winning 5:4, and after the second inning we were still winning, 7:6. We shouted “batter go, batter go,” and we got a lot of hits and points. But none of us hit a home run. Also, the pitcher was very good, and also we worked very well to get the Little Stars runners out at third base, or at the home plate. But then we had a problem – the Little Stars were still very strong in the third inning, and we didn’t get enough points to beat them. It’s too bad, but I felt quite excited in the first inning, but in the second inning I said “oh no.”
After that we ate lunch and I climbed up the hill with my friends, it was quite exciting, but two of my friends were pushing down one of my other friends, so they got into a fight, but my other friend who was knocked down, he said “stop that, stop that,” but they didn’t listen. No one was hurt in the end, and then we went back home and I watched some Arashi and went to the swimming pool with my dad. We had dinner and some fruit and played Black Peter card game, then I went to sleep. Good night.
Here is the picture of the score board that shows that we were winning in the second inning (yay).
