Japanese Yochien Lunch

At the beginning of the school year, Ai Sensei asked us at the bus stop if Claire would like to start having Japanese lunch on Mondays and Wednesdays and a sandwich and milk on Fridays. I said yes, but I wanted to hear how she liked it after the first week and then again the next week, to make sure she liked it.


Sensei told me that she eats very well and I ask Claire and she tells me she likes it. One day she came home and told me, "MOMMY! GUESS WHAT?!?! There was a FISH in my lunch today!" (It was quite funny to Claire!) But she didn't seem to mind and I continue to ask her every Monday and Wednesday and she says she likes her lunch.

So spring forward to this month when I notice the menu in her handouts in her backpack

Which, of course, I can't read.  And the highlighted part cracks me up because I'm pretty sure that was just on my handout...I hadn't been sending in a fork, a spoon or a cup. :)  WHOOPS!  Gaijin!!!

So I asked Mick to take it to his Saint of a secretary, Miss Nika-san and she translated it for us (producing this awesome document...the Japanese do not do anything halfway).

I ask Claire every day and says she likes her meal and then I ask her if there was fish in her meal and she usually says no...but she's mistaken, as you can see! ☺

The sandwiches are beautiful. I saw them when I took cookies in for Claire's birthday. They are cut on the diagonal and one half was ham and cheese and the other half was a ham salad. The lunches really kick the stuffing out of the pepperoni and pickles or jelly sandwiches that I send in for her. No wonder she likes it so much! :)  I really need to go in there on a Monday or Wednesday to see the Japanese lunch.

Claire Bear will be the most Japanese of us

when we leave here, that's for sure!

Speech, experience and now expanded taste buds!