School visit

the photo: University of Nottingham

I am visiting Crossdale Drive Junior School in Keyworth in Nottingham, UK tomorrow.

I am updating my presentation material to reflect on what is happening in Japan now.　

Later this week, many school are going to have their first day ceremony (called nyu-gaku-shiki 入学式）. The cherry blossom is full in the most of the places in Japan.  It is a happy event for may children and their parents.

But many children and schools in the affected areas are not having normal ceremony this year. Many of them are not in their schools but somewhere else.  If they have a room to study, they are lucky ones.  Their friends and classmates are not always altogether.  Some go to one school and the others to go to a different one.  Teachers at the schools which escaped from the damage need to accommodate these children in their classroom.  I am hoping that many smiles come back to the children through going to school.

And tomorrow's presentation will raise awareness to the children at Crossdale Drive Junior school about Japan.