We’ve been going to Japan quite a lot lately. This time, though, was not really a vacation. There were two parts of this trip: The first 8 days was to…
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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…
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Our belated honeymoon. Almost 2 years late, but it was so much fun. And it was my first time going to Kyoto and Fukuoka. I think I fell in love…
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we checked out of the minshuku at 5:30 in the morning. it was sooo hard to get up after such a long day yesterday. the front desk lady had to…
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today was quite a short day compared to the previous days. we checked out of the hotel prior to 10AM and picked up by Hitomi-san and Jessi by car. we…
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we have to check out of the hotel before 10 o’clock in the morning, because the receptionist lady told us over and over again that there is a pretty hefty…