School closure and re-opening

Dear students and friends. After the Fukushima power plant incident we decided to close the school for approximately a month until the situation became clearer and the safety of our students could be determined. We thank you for your patience and are happy to announce that we will be re-opening the school on the 9th of May. Adult classes will resume at their normal day and time and children's parents will be notified by telephone in regard to new class times. We look forward to seeing you again for the new school year.

Happy New Year! We wish you the best of health and happiness in 2011.

Hello again. Well, it's that time of year again: our annual nagashi somen event. Every year Hiro cuts down and cleans some bamboo and we slide tons of thin Japanese noodles down it. students and friends wait eagerly with chopsticks ready to scoop the noodles into their bowls of soup. Depending on your chopstick-skills, you can go home with a tummy full of noodles, mini-tomatoes, mandarin pieces......... Good fun to be had by all.

This year we will also have some mini water balloon yo-yos for the kids. The weather promises to be fine so are looking forward to a good turn-out. The list of names is growing so please don't forget to contact us if you can come, or write you name on the list at the log-house. The event will be held on September 11, from 11 am to 3pm with hourly rotations of groups. The last lot of somen will go down the bamboo slide at 2pm.

Here are some pictures from previous years...

Hope to see you there!

Recently we layed some red gravel, made from recycled roof tiles, over the main car-park area.

It's much less muddy on rainy days now! We really liked the idea of using recycled material too.

The path from the secondary carpark to the log house is starting to look better too. I am thinking to name it the Totoro path as it looks like somewhere Totoro might pop out from.

Inside the log house, the natural, woody feeling continues.

And we still love Totoro.