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Kawasaki, 2020.05.18

Several private schools in Japan are barring kids from other countries to enter their intake exams, or simply not having those intake exams. The two schools we were hoping to get Ken into (these are $8-10k private schools with majority English instruction, not the $30-40k American School!) have withheld posting their exam dates. We might have trouble getting The Boy into any English instruction, which would mean he'd have to switch gears entirely to all-Japanese classes.

Which could be tough.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot