Today was the first competition day: the Japan Ballet Competition 2017, in Fukuoka. We planned to leave the hotel at 9:30am, so we had to get up a bit earlier…
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For dinner, the team decided to eat Tonkatsu. Apparently, in Japanese, the word katsu means win. And it’s a homonym with the food katsu, which means cutlet. So, as a…
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Today, we decided to check out the studio. We didn’t get to see the studio at all yesterday, and the other moms who went yesterday said, the studio is located…
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After the girls came back from the studio, we had to get ready very quickly, because we were going out for an onsen and dinner trip! Naomi-san had made reservations…
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Today was the first day of the intensive training before the competition. The bus would pick up the kids everyday at 8:30 in the morning, and they would stay in…
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We took the red-eye flight to Fukuoka tonight, which departed at 1:20 in the morning. Most of the Cheng Ballet students who were going to Japan for these ballet competitions…