The Personal Blog of Mitchell Hughes

Funabashi Children’s Festival…

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:02:28 +0000

On the 19th of June, we went to a childrens festival.

My friend lives in Funabashi and his mum played the French horn (It is like a round saxophone but bigger than a trumpet) at the festival. At the festival, we made a key chain using magic plate. You draw a picture on the plate and put in the oven for 5 seconds. When you do that, it shrinks ! it was very cool. After that we went to an indoor playcentre. I like the game called “TAIKO NO TATUJIN” (I am playing it in the photo below). It was a great day and i had lots of fun.

More News Soon…
From Mitchell…

School in Japan…

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:50:13 +0000

Hi Everybody,

I am having lots of fun at Japanese school!!! I am going to a primary school near my grand parents’ house for 2 weeks.
I am in Grade 2, Class #1. I was given a book which had everyone’s photo, their name, what they like and a message to me.
On the front page, It said “YOUKOSO 2-1″ which means welcome to grade2 class1. I have made a lot of friends, and I hope I can stay in touch with them when I return to Australia…

Shimizu Athletic Park…

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:42:20 +0000

June 11th…

Hi Everybody, on June 11th, our Mum, Emily and Me went to a very cool place called Shimizu Athletic Park.

There was lots of adventure courses and we all tried the Family course. It was a lot of fun and we did nearly every part of the course … except the water course because there were a lot of big kids that we saw fall into the water and we did not want to fall into the water too. I hope you enjoy the photos below… (remember to click on the photos for a bigger view)

More Adventures soon…

From Mitchell and Emily

I am going to School !

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:00:25 +0000

Mitchell here again,

I am excited because I am going to be going to Primary School here in Japan for two weeks.
I start next week and today, my mum and me went to the local school and met the principal and the classrom teacher Miss Matsumura. School starts from 8am though, so I will have to get up early every day. The school has an outside swimming pool and there is swimming classes on Monday so I am looking forward to it…

Here is a photo of the school that I will be attending in Saitama.

Emily is a little too young to join in with School on this trip, so maybe on our next trip She can go to school too…

More news and photos soon

From Mitchell and Emily in Japan

Adventures in the rice field…

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:55:03 +0000

Hi Everybody, Our Grand parents live in Saitama which is about 40km north of Tokyo. There are Rice fields near their house and they are so green… There is also some rice growing in a container in the garden of Gigi’s House too. I can see lots of small tadpoles in the rice field. I want to catch some tad poles to swim in the rice that is growing at home too, but they mover very fast and we could not catch them… don’t worry, we will keep trying…

More news soon from Mitchell & Emily in Japan

So where are we really…

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:47:56 +0000

Hi Everybody, Mitchell here, Emily and I thought we would show everyone on the map exactly where we are… we are waaaaaaay up kind of up on the top part of the world. If you go to Adelaide and then go 8,155 km north you will reach Japan… Here is a picture on the world map so you know where we are…(remember, click on the photo to get a bigger view)

More news soon.
Bye for now, from Mitchell & Emily in Japan…

Our Local Library in Sugito…

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:34:04 +0000

Hi Everybody, Mitchell & Emily here again…

Because there is no internet connection at my Gigi & Baaba’s place, we go to the local library here in Sugito to use their Free Internet Connection. The libraries in Japan look just like the ones in Melbourne, lots of books and you still have to be very very quiet.

Here is a picture of me on the laptop talking on the Webcam to my Dad on Skype…

Japan is almost on the same time as Melbourne, but Japan is 1 hour behind. So if it is 3:00pm in Melbourne, it means it is only 2:00pm in Tokyo. It is nice and sunny weather here as it is almost Summer. We are about 8,155 km from Melbourne. We miss you all, but look forward to seeing you all again soon…

P.S – Emily stayed at home playing with Grandma on this trip to the Library, so she missed out on being in the photo. But she will come on the next trip to the library…

More photos soon…

From Mitchell and Emily

June 3rd – Clams on the beach !

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:58:51 +0000

On 3rd June, GiGi (our Grand Dad) Baaba (our Grand Mother) and Mum and Emily and Me, all went went to Funabashi Sanbanze Coastal Park in Chiba. We searched for clams on the beach.

We were all digging in the sand for the clams. Emily and Me found some, but GiGi got most of them… maybe he knew where to dig.

After we got home, Baaba soaked the clams in salty water overnight and then she put them into
the miso soup that we had the next morning which was VERY nice…

It was great fun to go to the beach with my Grandparents and I hope we can all go again one day…

Bye for now – Oh and remember – If you want to see a larger photo, you can click on any of our photos to enlarge them too!

More adventures soon.
From Mitchell & Emily

Arriving in Japan ! YAY !!

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:43:40 +0000

Hi Everybody,

Mitchell here, Well, we arrived safely in Japan on 1st June after a long day on the plane…

The first thing I did when I got to my Grandparents place was to have a shower because the plane was rolling around like a roller coaster for about 10 minutes and I felt Sick… Emily was fine though. Here is a photo of her the next night, talking to our Dad on the phone before she went to bed…

It is great to have arrived and Emily and I (with some help from Mum and Dad) look forward to sharing our big Japan trip adventure with you all…

Bye for Now…

Mitchell & Emily

2 Sleeps to go….

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:53:41 +0000

We are getting excited and are looking forward to our big flight to Japan…
We will have to have an early night tomorrow night… because we have to be at the airport at 5 o’clock in the morning on Tuesday !