Tuesday, September 28, 2010

For the Children

Every neighborhood has its own personality and charm, telling a great deal about the individuals that live within them.  Mine is a half hour from Hirakatashi-eki by bus and varies from cramped houses to rice fields to ostentatious mansions one would consider large even by American standards.  However, the over-arching theme seemed to be centered around children.




My bus stop is next to a local park, which is mainly sand and gravel, but with a number of climbing structures and see-saws that host both elementary-and-middle-school-aged children, depending on the time of day.  It's across the street from an elementary school, which is full of children eager to learn English--and aren't afraid to trap a couple of foreigners for upwards of an hour with questions and insisting that the two must be dating.

Welcoming and eager, if not more than slightly intimidating.

1 comment:

  1. Children are certainly an important part of any neighborhood. Many students have written about children - or the lack of them - in neighborhood parks. You offer some brief physical descriptions of your neighborhood and then present the main theme of children. But you don't go into much detail. Why do you think children are important to investigate within this week's theme of neighborhood? How do your photos work to support this theme? (I do like your second photo.) Also, I am a little concerned about having pictures of children in these posts without their parent's permission.

    The light-bluish font on top of the burnt-yellow background makes your text difficult to read.

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