| Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| Christmas party at Okayama-shi children's home |
 Is this not the freakiest mask you've ever seen? Rudolph looks like he could be Billy Bob's sidekick in "Bad Santa."
 Domo arigatou, Yusuke Roboto! We had about 50 JETs and company come to Shintenchi Children's Home again this year for Christmas, but we had to pack into the gym because of rain. Most of the kids here are not orphaned, but have been abandoned or removed from their family's care for various reasons. Many of them are also unable to enter the foster system or be adopted because their parents specified it as such when they were taken to the home. It makes sense for those kids that are short-term or temporary residents, but many of them are left in the home until they finish high school.
Lauren with a teacher and some of the junior/senior high boys.
 That's Pinku-chan (the stuffed pig), Tomami (the girl), Ari-chan (the baby), and Sharky (the census guy in Tamano). The kids were bouncing off the walls to begin with, and then they got their presents, and then we gave them sweets and snacks. With 2 remote control helicopters and countless cars zooming around, I kept thinking "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" but everyone made it through the day unblinded.
 This was my tiny little space cadet, Kaito. I gave him Anpanman building blocks, mostly because I wanted to play with them, too. He is 3, but I would put his developmental level at that of an 18- or 24-month old. (Even thinking that makes me itch to read my mom's subscription to Parents magazine. I shouldn't admit that out loud.) I really want to hang out at the nursery school when I have time to visit more often this spring because I miss little guys like him. |
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I think the most disturbing image of this month was Ludo walking on hands and feet, while a little Japanese boy wearing the reindeer mask was walking behind him, rhythmically slapping the Frenchman's ass with indoor slippers.
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I think the most disturbing image of this month was Ludo walking on hands and feet, while a little Japanese boy wearing the reindeer mask was walking behind him, rhythmically slapping the Frenchman's ass with indoor slippers.