Winter: Holidays, happiness, hybernation
In the winter, we have a harder time getting up and out to school or work because it is dark outside so cozy inside. That may be one of the reasons that most cultures have mid-winter holidays and festivals...We hope your enjoy our holiday cards; the singing byJulian's Carolers, and the parent/community performance [with video] and class party at Gimnazjum #4. Also students did a special performance for parent's in January. Inami students celebrate the January New Year's holidays with a game of Kurata.

In collaboration with our partners at Ein Ganim, enjoy the "Giving" project with thoughts from around the world. Also in celebration of Valentine's day, be sure to visit "With Love from You to Me. [a work in progress]

Be sure to get your fish for the Holidays and be prepared to welcome in the Year of the Rat. Shops are closed for 3 days while celebrating New Years, so people are very busy shopping the days before. The first day of 2008 at Kobe Central Catholic Church and at Ikuta Shrine.

Chinese New Year celebration: Kobe's Chinatown

Gimnazjum #4 goes on a trip every year. In preparation for that trip, students learn and "earn" money for the trip!
Students of Gimnazjum # 4 take part in 'Odyssey of the Mind' and they are quite successful in it. Drama classes attend the play: Chicago! The whole class goes to the museum on a field trip.

On 13 Feb. class 3a went to see the Pharaohs' Curse exhibition.

Learning about WWII first hand from those who were there, students at Gimnazjum #4 also share what they have learned with other students around the world. From Inami School, our friends sent photos of the Korean War Memorial and pictures from WWII.