{"id":28648,"date":"2018-09-13T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=28648"},"modified":"2018-11-15T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:36:37","slug":"28648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=28648","title":{"rendered":"Japanese News &#8211; Chihiro Takebayashi&#8217;s Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was the final day for our Japanese assistant, Chihiro Takebayashi.\u00a0 Students and I farewelled her with a Japanese style picnic in the grounds which is common in Japan during Spring and is called Hanami.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-28649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Farewell-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Farewell-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Farewell-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Farewell-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Farewell.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nThe group made onigiri (rice balls) and also ate edamame (salted soya beans). Some students created cute characters that were made with rice and seaweed based on a practice in Japan called kyraben where cute characters are recreated in lunch boxes. Students also honed their skills with a traditional toy called Kendama. They practiced their Japanese etiquette and chopstick skills by playing a game with Maltesers where they had to move them from one bowl to another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Lana Thorpe<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Japanese Teacher<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was the final day for our Japanese assistant, Chihiro Takebayashi.\u00a0 Students and I farewelled her with a Japanese style picnic in the grounds which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28653,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions\/28653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}