Read Part 3 >> March 4, 2011 Bachan's sister is in the hospital, so he's in Campo Grande. So I'm staying with my Auntie Niall for a while. I have three cousins, and the youngest one, Noah, is so cute. He's 2 years old. Compared to when I was in …
Read Part 2 >> May 7, 2010 "Festa do Dia das Mães 1 " was held at school today. When I was in Japan, there was no such event at Brazilian schools because the mothers had to work in factories. The students just made pictures and cards and gave them …
I believe words are living things. When people's way of thinking and living changes, words also change. About 60 years ago, when I was a child, there were very few Japanese people living in the city of São Paulo, so "Japanese" people stood out in many ways. I still remember …
Read Part 1 >> February 17, 2010 I saw the Brazilian Carnival for the first time on TV. Today, Wednesday, is the last day. It is called "Ash Wednesday". When I asked Bachan what it meant, he explained to me that "The festival that everyone has been waiting for for …
January 26, 2009 Why? Why do you have to go back to Brazil? Hey, is it true? I asked Mommy, but she was busy cleaning up in the kitchen. Unusually, she didn't say, "Jessica, help out too." I really don't want to go back! Mommy told me, "You'll be a …
Hiroyuki steeled himself and told Sanae the truth. He told her that while he was a student in Brazil, he had a child and moved in with the child's mother, Maria do Rosario, and that two years later, he came to Japan alone to work. Sanae listened in silence. Hiroyuki …
That day, when he hung up the phone, Hiroyuki was so surprised that he was stunned for a moment. "I'll come over there next time!" the words of his wife, whom he had left behind in Brazil, rang in his ears. At first he thought she was joking, but Maria …
Part 1 >> Kazue had fallen in love with Jackson, who was 12 years younger than her, but she was finally unable to bear the domestic violence and was thinking of running away. The next morning, when Fasineira 1 arrived at the apartment, she found Kazue collapsed in the living …
"I want to be a hairdresser," Kazue said, so she left the town where she was born and raised and went to São Paulo. She even took a year off from high school to live and train at her uncle's hair salon. After that, she got her hairdresser's license and …
台風が通り過ぎた翌日のことでした。その日の朝は蒸し暑く、ミッちゃんは赤いランドセルを背負って、水筒を持って学校に向かって歩いていました。
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