Ryan's Performances

Ryan's school has the end-of-year performance on August 1st. This year was also the 10th anniversary of Shichida educational system in Taiwan. The system emphasizes on right-brain development, learning through conceptualization and pictures. As it is a Japanese system, so the kids have one Japanese class, one English class and one Chinese class everyday. Of course all they do are play games, sing and dance, but in different languages.

Ryan first recited the speech for the graduating students, then showing off the different frogs and trains they learned in class. Finally he sang and danced in Japanese.

As it was the 10th anniversary, so there was a 10-story cake on stage. Thomas, being the alum of the school, was also invited on stage to sing happy birthday song. As usual, Mommy was not in the picture as she was always the one taking the pictures for everyone.

Ryan was attending music classes every Friday evening. It was a 6 session, 2 years course where they learned, very gradually, the music notes and beats and simple theories. They also sang, danced and played with xylophone. At the completion of every session, there will be a very short performance. In the music class, Ryan always stood out because he was never part of the "crowd". For example, when the teacher drew on the white board and the kids sat in a row in front, Ryan would sit by himself away from the crowd. When everyone sings and dances, he would purposely run the opposite direction or sing a note earlier. However, he was always the first one to raise his hand to answer questions. Mommy could imagine him being the teacher's heache in every class.