
The High-Flyers of Tomorrow
by joostay
Work hard. Play hard. A field trip to the airport – with schoolbags visible from space. My Japanese kindergarten doesn’t do things by halves. Right now the nen-chos are getting ready for their happyokai or ‘performance festival’: an all-day affair that will see each class perform a 30-minute play – in English. These kids are five and six years old. Some might say it’s a lot of pressure, and I guess it is – but moreso on all the teachers who […]
Categories: Kindergarten Life • Tags: airport, asia, english, field trip, happyokai, japan, kindergarten, museum, narita, performance festival, teaching, tefl, tokyo, travel