Arielle's first day at the Pre-school

Finally, Arielle's dream came true--she started her first day at kindergarten. I mean she's been asking us to put her in a school for so long. This morning about 7:45 am I woke her up. She was still quite tired but I told her "Arielle, you need to get ready for your school". She automatically got up and smiled excitedly. Arielle loves associating with other children. Arielle didn't cry when I dropped her off at the school. She even told me repeatedly "mommy, you can go home and rest; don't stay at (Arielle is still confused about using preposition--poor little child!)) me at school". Arielle is better than me. When I was younger and living in Cambodia my first day at Kindergarten was terrible. I snuck out of the classroom and walked all the way home. I was only 4 years old and I remembered how to get home by myself.
Anyways, she came home today and told me her friend said to her "abunai" (means dangerous). I asked her what it means and she told me it means "yes". Everything means "Yes" to Arielle in a foreign language. Arielle finally grasped the concept that Japanese and Korean are different languages. At first, she would just speak Korean to Japanese kids, but now she just does signs and body language to Japanese. Arielle and I really need to improve our language skills. We've been her almost two months but our lanugage skills are still very stagnant. We've got to do something about it!

I'm not sure what's wrong with Clark and the camera. I always have a hard time making him take a picture with me.

Arielle is playing with a Japanese traditional instrument that is famous in Toyama Prefecture. We also got to make one.

We're making traditional Japanese paper

Arielle loves playing with water

This was Arielle's last Sunday at "Korean church" so she got to ride a bike and screw around.

This picture is taken right before we left Korea. Clark always has a hard time making good pose.