Erika-San
“One of them showed a cottage with lighted windows. Erika would remember the picture all her life.
"I want to live there," she said the first time she saw it.
"It's an old print, darling," Grandmother said. "Grandpa bought it in Japan when he was a young man." "I want to go there when I grow up," Erika said.
And since that day, Erika wanted to know more about Japan, so Grandmother checked out Japanese picture books and folktales from the library and read them to her at bedtime.
Erika made ma...ny friends—some of them Japanese—and learned to say "konnichiwa" for "hello" and "sayonara" for "goodbye" and many other words besides. She studied Japanese in middle school and in high school and all the way through college.
The day Erika graduated, she was the first to say goodbye to all her friends.
"What's the hurry? Aren't you coming to the party?" they asked.
"Sayonara, everybody—I've got a teaching job in Tokyo!" But when Erika arrived in Tokyo, she could not remember a single word of Japanese.MoreLess
"I want to live there," she said the first time she saw it.
"It's an old print, darling," Grandmother said. "Grandpa bought it in Japan when he was a young man." "I want to go there when I grow up," Erika said.
And since that day, Erika wanted to know more about Japan, so Grandmother checked out Japanese picture books and folktales from the library and read them to her at bedtime.
Erika made ma...ny friends—some of them Japanese—and learned to say "konnichiwa" for "hello" and "sayonara" for "goodbye" and many other words besides. She studied Japanese in middle school and in high school and all the way through college.
The day Erika graduated, she was the first to say goodbye to all her friends.
"What's the hurry? Aren't you coming to the party?" they asked.
"Sayonara, everybody—I've got a teaching job in Tokyo!" But when Erika arrived in Tokyo, she could not remember a single word of Japanese.MoreLess
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