Category: Lives

It’s summertime in Japan — which means summer festivals with dancing and fireworks (Matsuri 祭り), Yukatas (the traditional Japanese summer wear 浴衣) and fun Japanese food. This year was Sarah’s first year to dance, and she was so excited! To add to the excitement Sarah turned 5 years old the week before, so we invited her Japanese classmates to come to our house for an American birthday party — and they all came! We shattered the record of people in our house at once, you’ve just got to see the video below!

https://youtu.be/lYzSSoukGWY

And this last picture I just had to include — it was only 3 years ago that Becca & Anna were dancing in this summer festival, and now it’s Sarah’s turn! Wow time flies — but they all look beautiful together!

Our kids have quite a unique life — they are American/Brazilian and yet go to Japanese school where they interact and learn in Japanese! To make things even more diverse, there are no schools in the world like Japanese schools — why, even the children are trained to do all the cleaning from a young age! And there’s nothing quite like a Japanese Undoukai, or Sports Day. Come enter into a bit of our Japanese/American/Brazilian world as our newest video focuses on Becca & Anna and their school.

https://youtu.be/dPeDcjRBRtg

In one week we transform our brand new location in the Tokyo area into a space that will work to host our church meeting while preparing it to be a cafe! It’s Fixer Upper Tokyo style, as we get to work in this episode of Life in Japan.

We speak English at home, but outside the house everything is Japanese. See what life is like for our kids as we balance Japanese school, private English and music lessons and life and try to make it fun all at the same time. One thing for sure — our daily routine helps us make it work! It’s time for Life in Japan — Kids’ style! Check out the next video in our Life In Japan series.