Learning Japanese

In the past weeks Kohei and Mrs Tuji have been teaching us Japanese.
In the first week, we learnt a game called Jan Kin, in New Zealand we call it Paper, Scissors, Rock.
We learnt about the Doll Festival which was on March 3. In the second week we learnt about origami and chop-sticks. In the third week we learnt about and we played sumo wrestling and wrote our names in Japanese with ink and a brush. The ink smelt like coral and dead fish. This work was called calligraphy. On the secound to last lesson we dressed up in Yukatas and looked at Japanese moeny, which is called Yen. On the last week we played with Japanese toys like blow up balloons, hacky sacks, helicopters and spinning tops. Everybody liked having Kohe here and he has been a good friend. It has been fun having Kohe to play with at lunch and morning tea. Good-bye Kohei and Mrs Tsuji.
by Matthew C. and Harry
photos by Zane

"It was really nice learning about Japan." Kayla
"It was fun teaching him English because if he didn't understand we acted it out." Victoria
"It's really nice have a Japanese guest because we can learn about a different culture." Alexandra
"He learnt about New Zealand and English and we learnt about Japan." Lillian
"It was better than a video or a script." Mallory
"Because Kohei was in our class we had more opportunities to ask questions." Anishka
"It was cool taking him out to show him what things were because I learnt the Japanese words." Matthew C