12Y1M 10Y 3M 恭喜発財 Happy CNY

中華正月なので赤で！　In red for CNY!

マレーシアに引っ越してきて以来、９回目の中華正月。アラタから、人生のほとんどをマレーシアで過ごしている。

今日は金坂家とアマン島へ。中華正月だけど、ここのシーフードレストランはマレー人の経営だから開いてた。そういうところ、他民族のマレーシアは素敵！

おいしいシーフード食べて、カヤックして。楽しい一日でした。

 This is the ninth Chinese New Year since we moved to Malaysia. Aratakara have spent most of his lives here....

We went to Pulau Aman with Kanesaka family. The only seafood restaurant on the island was open as the owner family is Malay. I quite like the fact that Malaysia is a country consisting of 3 different races. A kind of convenient.

We had nice seafood, boys and dads did kayaking. Was a good day.

12Y0M 10Y3M 移動教室 Residential trip to Cameron Highlands

タカラ、SCIPSで移動教室へ。FOBISIAだとか水泳大会とかで、友達と先生とどこかのホテルに泊まるのはもう何度目だろう。今回はキャメロンハイランド。

Takara was away to Cameron Highlands for SCIPS residential trip. He is so used to be away with his friends and teachers, like FOBISIA and ISAC. 

12Y0M 10Y3M 日本人学校水泳記録会 PJS Swimming gala

今年は小学校最後の水泳記録会。CSCに行きだして水泳も上手になってきたので、かい君たちが学校記録更新に向けて頑張っている影響を受けて、アラタも挑戦。

一人３種目しかトライできなく、そのうち一種目は25Mフリースタイル。後２つ、確実に更新できそうなのは、25Mと50Mのバックだったが、バックは50Mだけにして、25Mはバタブライにチャレンジしたら？と、私。

結果的にはバタフライ、フリーは、0.1秒及ばず。後で朝礼で表彰されるということで、確実な二つをトライさせればよかったという声もあったが、難しいのにチャレンジしたことは大切だし、50Mバックだけでも記録を更新できたからいいんじゃないかなと思う。

学校対抗リレーは男子、悲願のUplandsに勝った。とはいえ、年齢的には向こうのYear6は若いから、ちょっとこっちが有利なんだけど。でもメダルをもらったのはうれしい。

The last swimming gala at PJS primary group. Arata has been training at CSC since July and he has started to show some improvement. Kai, particularly, has worked hard towards breaking the school records and Arata also decided to go for it.

One child can only choose 3 events, of which they have to do 25M free. We knew Arata would be able to break 25m and 50m backstrokes, but it sounded too easy for him. I suggested him to forget about 25m back and swim 25m fly instead.

He wasn't successful in 25m fly and free by just 0.1sec. Some mothers said it must have been better if Arata  had swam 2 backstroke events. But I think it was more important for him to challenge rather difficult targets. In anyway, he's a school record holder of  50m backstroke for year 6 boys.

The 4 x 25 free style relay was also quite exciting to watch. PJS year 6 boys won over Uplands year 6 team. Well, they were actually one year younger than our boys, but it was still brilliant as PJS hasn't beaten Uplands for a long period of time.

12Y0M 10Y3M 一人で日本 In Japan without boys

 ニュージーランドからおばあちゃんが来ているので、両親とお正月を過ごすために私一人で帰国。

１０日ほどの滞在だったが、子供がいないとなんとなく手持ちぶたさだったが、一女ソフト部友だちとバッティングセンター行ったり、みきちゃんやかおりさんと東京近辺うろうろしたり。

でもそろそろ仕事に復帰したい気が強まったかな、大手町の雰囲気で・・・。

始めて東大に行った。古き良き時代の大学って感じでよかった。

As Nana was here for a month, I went to Japan alone to spend new year with my parents. I felt nothing much to do without boys, but I had lunch with my old friends from high school softball team, or met Kaori and Miki and hang around near Tokyo station.

The surrounding and setting at Otemachi, near Tokyo station, made me feel like going back to work. I also went to Tokyo University for the first time. The university has the academic atmosphere. It brought back the memory of good old days....