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Wish upon a star. : Mutsumi Kobayashi We started this message exchange project on the day of the Star Festival,July 7. But the biggest scale of the Star Festival in Japan is held in Sendai for 3 days starting from August 6th, according to the lunar calendar. You can see a photo of the bamboo decorations on the SCNS website top page (http://www.sendai-senior.org/), and under these decorations, families, lovers, and friends stroll up and down the street . There are many foreign tourists joining this festival, too. One of the decorations hanging down the bamboo is a long strip of paper (Tanzaku) for writing wishes on it so that the wishes may come true. This year, the SCNS plans to decorate the Tanzaku which are sent from people all over Japan for a fee of 500 Yen. Will you join us to send the wishes for the festival ?. Please send your wishes writing on a rectangular paper (4 x 8 inches) with $5 fee included, if you have interest in. A part of the fee is donated for sufferers from the earthquake of Mt Usu in Hokkaido, a northern island of Japan. I know a song "When you wish upon a star" of a Disney music, but I am not sure if you have a simmilar way of wishing upon a star in America as we have in Japan. Let me show you my 2 wishes out of many; EHealth and happiness for all of you, new friends in Amarica. E Good fortune for the business of my husband, now facing the depression in Japan. Will write you again soon. July 19 | |
