Japan: Farewell Food Chapter# Yes.
We are moving again.
The usual thing is to arrange a moving company and pack your belongings.
The only different detail in Japan is that you have to do many things yourself.
Especially use the Japanese-only website to book a junk removal company to collect large items of household items.
The condition is that you must fill in the form in person to make an appointment.
The good-tempered Mr. G also started to go a little crazy.
In Japan, even discarded dishes are considered large items of garbage.
Therefore, it is not allowed to put it in the garbage room at one time.
Just because we lost some dishes, the person in charge of the apartment's garbage room immediately contacted Ms. Yuka to complain.
Ms. Yuka is a staff member of the human resources department of Mr. G’s company.
Later, Ms. Yuka helped us arrange for a garbage removal company and found an English-speaking staff member to communicate with us.
We also sold the remaining electrical appliances and furniture at second-hand prices.
Finally we can put all the big furniture and appliances in our home into place.
In a year and a half in Tokyo, we didn’t know many people.
We gave an IKEA cabinet from the kitchen to Feng'er's classmate.
Their parents brought a box of expensive grapes worth 1,000 yen to express their gratitude.
Our two families tasted these grapes together for the first time.
It is well known that grapes in Japan are not cheap.
After tasting some grapes and drinking some coffee, Mr. G helped them move the cabinets downstairs.
There is one less piece of furniture in the house.
As for the bed and dining table at home, we were very lucky to find a couple from France and a Japanese girlfriend to buy them.
They were willing to let us sleep until we arranged for a container truck to pick it up on the day of departure.
Comparatively speaking, selling second-hand home appliances and furniture in Japan will be easier and faster than in the United States.
What followed was a series of goodbyes.
June 28, 2018# This semester is coming to an end.
Summer vacation is coming soon.
Usually expatriate families will try to choose this time to move to another expatriate country to continue working and living.
This afternoon, my son and his classmates performed singing and dancing for the parents.
On a hot summer day, the auditorium was as hot as an oven.
The children looked serious and looked forward to the warm applause of their parents.
They all secretly meowed in the lounge to see if their parents were here.
Of course, only some parents will support it.
The children prepared program lists that they wrote and drew to present to their parents.
Then the show begins.
The first part of the performance involves singing two French songs interspersed with one Japanese song.
The sound of children singing surrounded the auditorium.
Feng'er said: "The teacher brought a class of the most well-behaved students. They are the only students in the class who can watch our performance with their parents." There was no celebration with gongs and drums, and there was no gorgeous stage.
The children performed a dance story about a big tree in their most authentic way.
This one is the most exciting performance.
The big tree goes through the four seasons, exposed to wind and rain, sun and rain.
The power of nature is so magical and mysterious.
The second dance is a circle dance.
The children joined hands and exchanged partners to show off this dance.
From an ignorant baby to an eight-year-old child.
The dance works presented give parents a different experience every time.
The school also printed a book of children's graffiti with the theme of the Tokyo Olympics.
After the children finished their performance, they handed the picture album they designed together with the teachers to the parents.
One copy per person.
It was a small picture book.
They took the time to pair illustrations of various buildings in Tokyo with the pictures they drew.
And their class photos.
This is one of the best memories.
There is also a memory book written by classmates for Feng'er to remember.
The Japanese-French children here seem to like painting very much.
The souvenir album is filled with pictures they hope Feng'er will like.
The weekend was arranged for him to go bowling with his good friends.
The children all played reluctantly.
The last picture in the postscript is a picture album completed by Feng'er himself.
The relationship between the classmates is so good.
Everyone agreed to meet up in Kyoto and Tokyo after they moved to their new homes and settled down.
The children were sad.
When I was taking the tram home from school, my female classmate burst into tears.
The little girl who usually has a carefree personality actually cried.
The son felt sad.
But he didn't burst into tears.
The temporary separation is also for the future reunion.
children!
Be strong!
The last picture is a picture drawn by his friend Sei to commemorate him.
As an expat wife, farewell dinners are inevitable.
The first farewell dinner was with three Japanese ladies who married French gentlemen.
We made an appointment to have lunch at a Japanese vegetarian restaurant above a shopping mall in Ikebukuro.
This set of wild vegetable lunch is the most light and thoughtful meal I have ever eaten.
Although I can't understand Japanese.
But when I saw the service attitude in the store, I still felt it was great.
After that, everyone tastes the original taste of the food.
After the meal, everyone paid according to the AA system, and then went to pick up the children from school together.
The second farewell dinner was also held by a Japanese lady and her husband was Australian.
Mr. is engaged in software engineering business in the education sector in Tokyo.
We made an appointment at a restaurant called Meisen upstairs in Shinjuku Takashimaya.
Lunch is also a set meal, similar to the beef sukiyaki set meal.
There were pickled sauerkraut and a few slices of sashimi.
The Japanese wife said: "When eating beef, you can dip it in raw eggs. You must stir the eggs before."