ところが弟のゆうたの日本語力強化の為に、駐在中のお父さんを置いて、お母さんと兄弟で日本へ母子留学に行ってしまった。ベストフレンドがいなくなって寂しいアラタだが、夏休みで一時帰国していたゆうととよく遊んだ。
日本人学校の入学基準が厳しくなり、日本語力が足らない場合は入学を拒否されるからで、ゆうたは、２度チャレンジしてダメだった。就学年齢だけど学校にいけず困っていたが、とりあえず日本で頑張って来年度には戻ってくるという作戦。
アラタのようにインター校、あるいはローカル校からの日本人学校への編入の場合も今年から入学試験がある。面接と筆記。テストは算数国語２枚ずつで、アラタは１時間かけてやっていた。漢字は全然だめだったが、どうにか入れてもらえてよかった・・・。
Yuto is Arata's friend since Taska Nania. Not only he lives in the same condominium but he played an important role for Arata to settle in PJS smoothly. Ms Shimizu told me Arata always follwed Yuto...
Unfortunately Yuto and his brother Yuta have moved to Japan with their mum. His father is still in Penang but Yuta needed to go to school in Japan for a while to improve his Japanese as he failed entrance tests to PJS twice and he had nowhere to go although he was supposed to get compulsory education.... Their plan is to stay in Japan till the end of this school year and will join PJS next April.
To be accepted by PJS is getting difficult. If your children want to go to PJS from international or local school, they have to take an entrance tests. which is a new policy started at the beginning of this year. Arata took an interview and written test of 4 papers! He spent nearly 1 hour to finish them all. His Kanji was terrible but luckily he was allowed to join.....
Anyway, while they were back to Penang for summer, my boys and Yuta &Yuto played lots.
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