Documentation for the trips and events we’ve gone
The boys were enjoying sea breeze in the hotel’s veranda at Derawan Island
Brotherhood between toddler and baby is the cutest 💕👦🏻👶🏻 #musaromas #noahromas. These are some of their memories in Indonesia last month. Many people asked me how to keep them at a good condition while travelling almost every day during 25 days trip. I said: we’re just lucky! If they’re sick they’re just sick too. No dopping no secret, seriously 🤪. Continue reading
“Where to go this GW (Golden Week)” is kind of normal question to the people in Japan as they entered the new year, no exception us, no matter with a baby or not. Holiday is holiday after all, which we won’t take it for granted 😛
Around Feb, we started discussion how we’re gonna spend this year’s GW. For the first time in the history, GW holiday will be the longest up to 10 days in total including weekends. I suggested to go to the new places, but Aisar preferred to revisit nostalgic areas such as Okinawa with kids this time. At the end, the fate stood by me. Aisar got the suggestion of cheap flights to Akita. It’s matched to my desire for Aomori, in which we can ride trains from Akita to reach.
Finally, there we went!
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Breathing fresh air and seing wild nature. Shosenkyo is located near Kofu city in Yamanashi prefecture. We reached there in about 1.5 hour train from Shinjuku and half an hour bus ride from Kofu station. The whole train journey is covered by Tokyo Wide Pass. (see original post on Aisar’s FB)
The second destination is grape orchards. I shared about our journey on my Instagram. Yamanashi is one of the best grape producers in Japan. We came to the farm very late so we had to make sure first before coming if they’re still available for customer visit. A famous farm, Asunaroen, gave us positive response. At 3:30 PM we went there by taxi from Yamanashi-shi station.
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Despite the wheezing and terrible cough since the night before day D, Musa fought his weakness to join his first undokai, which was happened to coincide with “Health and Sports Day” holiday in Japan. He almost gave up to go and kept saying “I’m feeling not good”, but his motivation came out as we arrived at the venue and he was able to join all the programs for nenshou group (年少組) until finished. What a beautiful moment to remember the whole life 💙
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[The full story will be written in Bahasa Indonesia with picture captions in English]
Undokai adalah salah satu event yang paling ditunggu ortu anak sekolahan di Jepang, apalagi yang newbie macam kami 😂. Secara bahasa, undokai berasal dari kata undo (運動) yang artinya olahraga (exercise, sport) dan kai (会), yaitu sebuah pertemuan atau kumpul-kumpul (gathering). Kebayang, kan, maknanya? Acara ini semacam pesta olahraga di mana tiap sekolah mengadakan sendiri-sendiri untuk muridnya. Cuma sehari aja, tapi di situ jadi ajang anak-anak untuk unjuk kebolehan di depan keluarganya. Bukan hanya orang tua, para native biasanya rombongan nontonnya sama kakek, nenek, paman, bibi, atau saudara si anak. Di Ota-ku, area yang kami tinggali di Tokyo, untuk anak-anak berkebutuhan khusus, mereka disatukan dalam satu ajang undokai tersendiri yang diselenggarakan oleh pemerintah kota. Keren, ya, udah kaya Asian Games atau Olympic aja ada versi “Para”-nya juga.
Umumnya undokai diadakan sekitar Oktober sebelum, saat, atau setelah Hari Kesehatan dan Olah Raga yang jadi libur nasional. Namun, sebagian sekolah tingkat SD ke atas ada juga yang lebih dulu mengadakannya di bulan Mei. Menurut saya strategi ini bagus, sih.. jadi kehebohan persiapannya nggak terpusat di satu periode yang sama seperti di Indonesia ketika peringatan Hari Kemerdekaan. Belanja di toko banyak saingan, nyewa baju harus rebutan, semua sibuk beresin tugas masing-masing nggak bisa saling gantiin.. dan sebagainya. Hehe. Efek baiknya juga, TK-TK yang umumnya tidak punya lapangan jadi bisa pinjam gedung SD yang sedang kosong (tidak ada undokai di bulan Oktober). Gedung SD di Jepang memang standarnya harus punya lapangan yang cukup luas untuk kegiatan olah tubuh. Kalo TK palingan halaman buat playground aja punyanya.
The elementary school yard which was used for undokai by Musa’s kindergarten
EGA ♥ AISAR 