JAPANEXILE

20^th December. The next Christmas party! One I’d been looking forward to, the Toya Nursery party. Its no secret Toya nursery is my favourite, and even better Dad was taking over the Duties of Santa for the morning. I had worried about the early start, but Mum and Dad were up bright and early anyway, doing the dishes, and hunting for coffee as you do. It was pretty standard Christmas party fare, singing, present giving, dancing, games. Good fun. The present giving took a long time, at first each kid came up, either with great speed or rather sheepishly, depending on whether they were interested in or scared out of their wits by the strange hairy Santa wearing a Rolex. But to speed things up Santa went round in person to the remaining kids, some of whom cottoned on that it might not be the real Santa, so to check wanted to remove the beard. Cheeky. A good last nursery day of the year, a good time for mum and dad to come methinks. Craig and I only had our Junior Class in the afternoon which dad came to whilst mum was getting her exercise fix. We’ve had some trouble with this class lately, with very few kids actually turning up, and when they do its in dribs and drabs. Quite annoying honestly. Makes it difficult to get anything done, as anything you do in the first half is then completely new to whoever turns up late. Hopefully the Board will heed our complaint and do something to fix it. This lesson was no exception really, three in total turned up, making any games difficult to do. Not a great lesson for dad to see, wish he had come on a day when we can do a real lesson. The day was yet to finish whoever, we got mum and dad checked into the Phoenix so they could have a rest before being taken with a large escort to the watch the festival in Toya-onsen. I would have liked to have seen this, but being one of the performers I was confined to backstage until showtime. I wrote about how the performance went in my Yosakoi update so I won’t bother again. Afterwards it was back to the Guten for the after-party, and finally bed, a long day. With another full one ahead.

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