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Wow, the school year is almost over and Kyoko will be going back to Japan in only four weeks. I have mixed emotions, I am sad because we have grown very close but also happy to have one less child that I have to drive around places.
Kyoko, is in a pop band in Japan, a spice girl like thing but she want’s to be a Japanese Tori Amos like thing. She has been working hard and writing songs, and had her second performance at Flicker in Athens. Her first performance Freakscene’s very own Sweeny ran sound. Anyway: this is Kyoko singing a song she wrote. I am very proud of her.we had a japanese exchange sutdent when I was in high school.. Ive always loved japanese stuff since…
Her highschool English teacher first suggested she become an exchange student………..together they searched for different organizations to apply to…………one was this one, http://www.facexchange.org/”>http://www.facexchange.org/, they are based in Florida and place students in mostly in the South, each state has an coordinator. The coordinator from Georgia and I know each other from different Christian charity groups. She asked me for five years in a row if we would host and I turned her down saying I just couldn’t fit another child into my life. This year she called me in August saying they had 10 students in a hotel near the airport who have no home to go to and they are going to have to send them back to their homes in Japan in a couple of days.
"I told Juan, they have students they are going to have to send back home if no one will take them in" his reply "thats not our problem" the coordinator brought 10 huge piles of paper to our house with photographs and school records and biographies.
Our child stated she wants to be a professional musician………and wanted to learn English so she could sing in English.
The part that closed the deal was my oldest daughter found a photograph of Kyoko’s father and said "Oh, my Gosh, her Daddy looks like a Japanese Daddy Juan. We all looked at the photograph and laughed, they did look alike. Her father is a radio personaliy in Japan, and he does the "morning show" lots of humor.
One week later she was here.Kyoko sings in Enlish for the first time in Georgia……a Damien Rice song. She starts by saying My name is Kyoko and I like Sushi………..When she says "I love Sara J" that is because Sara J is a good friend of mine who is a musician and of course, a girl, she has no children, so I called Sara J and said help this child……………She wants to start playing in clubs around Athens, how do you do that? Sara J took over sort of managing her music. I just helped with her English………..it took about two weeks to master the word "Courage" in this Damien Rice song………….I had to learn the song and then sing it back to her so she could hear the sound the words made when in song. I don’t sing so well so it was a very funny time in our house, going over and over this song together like one hundred times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1_5QVlZm28 j1_5QVlZm28
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