Summer Camps
The girls had a great summer with camps! Counselors came in from the States to lead the week-long sessions bringing with them lots of energy and ideas to keep the kids entertained. It's a great college program that accepts students in their final years studying child education. The kids loved their counselors and it made for a fun summer.
The camp had swim twice a week, bowling, and movies and a field trip once a week to Fukuoka. The girls got to go to very exciting places - a cooking place where they made ramen and gyoza, a plastic food cooking place where they got to make plastic sundaes and cookies (plastic food in Japan is at all restaurants making it much easier to order!), a marine aquarium, and space world amusement park.
In addition to the 'traditional' camps, the girls also went on a week-long Japanese overnight camp which they loved. Camp started on what looked like to be a huge typhoon. As the Americans were all huddling and shutting down, the Japanese kids and parents were heading up the mountain to camp. It turned out to be a non-event but knowing that some of us would be worried, the camp made special arrangements for everyone to spend the night. The storm averted us, and Jeff and I didn't get to go to camp - but the girls had a blast. The schedule was pretty packed with 06:30 wake, exercises, breakfast, language classes for the Japanese kids attending to help them speak English, and lots of activities including cleaning your own bathrooms! Before bed it was onsen time.
Another fun week for the girls was participating in the Missoula Children's theater. This year they did a version of Rapunzel, very different from the movie, that was cute. Both kids were dancing mushrooms and each had a line. It was very cute!
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