Keio boy

I saw a very interesting programme yesterday. It's about the test to enter elementary school in Japan. We're introduced to a little boy who will have a test to enter Keio's elementary school. And I had to keep on reminding myself he's not Sho.

One of the things I had just known after I arrived in Japan, here, there're school which has elementary, junior high, highschool and university all in the same name. usually, the good private school. I only know Keio, Waseda and Yasuda. there's a lot else. anyone know Sho's highschool? please tell me. my university is a public school, but it has those schools too.

why must a little boy think about test even when he's still that young? apparently, the boy is raised in good family, with an architect Keio-graduated mother, who thinks that she's now the way she is, all thanks to Keio, so she wants her son to enter Keio also. and if we look at the boy's kanji name, his name is Jiou, the "ou" is from "Keiou". which is a rather weird name for me.

this boy rarely watch tv, never plays games (at all, all of his toys were made by himself), using polite words and sometimes difficult words everytime he speaks, bows to his mother and say ohayou gozaimasu in the morning, only rest in Sundays, other days he has swimming lesson, horse-riding lesson, cram schools, etc. but it's not as scary as it sounds, he's happy, bouncy, active, cute, he's just a kid. well, a kid with better language than me. and he's not even 8!!!! In the end he's successfully entered Keio.

I can picture Sho's childhood now.

 

Ok, now the more important thing.

there's something I really want to do, but for me, it's expensive. I have money now, but I still have to live for a month, and this winter, I will go with my very-kind-host family, I had promised them. and also I will visit a Japanese who had been very helpful in my coming to Japan, I have to go to Ibaraki, which is far from Nagoya, which means expensive and then there's boku imo and photobook and the new single and even without doing that thing I wanna do, I wonder how would I get through this month.

but yesterday, all the sanity in the world vanish in one phonecall, and in 27 :

I AM GOING TO OSAKA TO WATCH CAPTAIN'S BUTAI !!!!!!!!!

I'm totally crazy. how am I going to live from now? and the seat is sooo far from stage, I hope at least I could see a glimpse of him.

hell with it, I'm going! I already buy the non-refund ticket anyway so I HAVE to go or I will waste a lot of money.

pray for me to come home safe since I'll go by myself, hontou ni hitori de, and I don't really like Osaka's image.

Comments

[投稿情報: chillinpaprika]

that's very common ne with people from high profile background family. they start to educate many things to their children from young age and mostly are very strict with their etiquette (reminds me of F4 =P). i guess there's always pros & cons to this. hopefully they still can enjoy & experience an innocent childhood. (i knew a 9 yrs old child who is very cautious & secretive about his family, to the point where some ppl think he lost his innocence T_T)

and congratulations on captain's butai ticket!!! have fun, be safe, and tell us all the details ^_^V

[投稿情報: Jun.M]

Good for you ! and (I'm sure that I don't need you to say that....but) HAVE FUN!!!
I think it's not that far apart from nagoya to osaka. if you take by kintetsu railways, that is cheaper than JR. Osaka is good place, there're a lot of amusing^^ but if my memory is correct, there's none of amusing place around venue...so If you have the time, you must be eat "tako-yaki"(baked octopus) it's well-known snack food of osaka that is always sold in
food stall on street. There's the most famous food stall between shinsai-bashi station and nanba station and it costs about 400~600yen(cheap ne?). you have to walk arcaded street from the station.
anyway i hope you enjoy your solo short trip and his show!!

[投稿情報: matsubunny]

Haha enjoy it!! How was the Captain's butai?

mm..tako-yaki!! I want it!!*-*