Art

This is a self portrait of Mai, one of the girls who I teach on Friday. She's 11 and wants to be a comic book artist when she grows up.



Yurie (12 or 13, I think) drew this picture during class a few weeks ago. Apparently this is what I look like during the lesson. :)



Actually, this one isn't from my students. It's from Maiko, my dad's cousin's daughter who lives in Okinawa. She drew a shisa, a traditional Okinawa guard dog-lion thing that is supposed to keep bad luck away from your house. It says, "To Big Sister Lindsay. This is a happy shisa. Don't you think so? From Mai Nakamura." There's kind of a Japanese pun in there that I can't translate, but it's very cute.