El Espanol en Japon

Since last year, every Thursday I have visited the house of the Matsuuras to eat dinner, and practice speaking Spanish. Because it is an uncommon language to learn around here, Reiko Matsuura had to search high and low for someone to practice with, and after calling the schools she found me. I went once, had a lot of fun, and decided to make it a weekly event. She cooks, and we have conversations with and odd mixture of spanish, english, and japanese. Now I am practicing Spanish more in Japan than I ever did in America.


Here they are. The mom is Reiko. The kids from left to right are Maho, Saki, and Kana. And not pictured is the father Osamu, who was busy working at the hospital across the street (he is a surgeon). As you can see, the kids were a bit shy about the picture taking.