Anri started attending daily kindergarten on Saturday, April 7th. Beginning with an "entrance ceremony", on Saturday, it has, since then, been lots of fun.

The kindergarten is Enpuku Kindergarten, a popular and quite large Buddhist Temple-based school with a well-known elderly priest as its spiritual leader. Though the place is temple based, the curriculum is largely secular. All the kids must arrive in their formal uniform. Once through the gate they change into their play clothes, which are another kind of uniform. Before leaving, they must change back into the formal uniform. Since Anri loves to put on dresses -- sometimes mutliple layers at once -- we figure all this changing of clothes will be easy for her!

All classes are named after flowers. Anri's is tanpopo, Japanese for "dandelion". A bus rolls nearby to pick Anri up every morning and take her to the kindergarten. The bus has a name too: the "tulip" bus. It has tulips painted all over it. Seeing the kids wearing their little hats riding on this bus is the cutest sight to see!