My son and I went to a big park on his kindergarten excursion.
By the way, is there a concept "Excursion" in foreign countries?
It is different from the picnic where it goes with the family and the friends.
It is not a weekend because school events and it is done as part of the class on weekdays.
Is this only Japan??
Do you know how to write Kanji of ''Excursion'' in Japanese??
It is ''遠足（Ensoku）'', ''遠'' means ''far'' and ''足'' means ''foot'', yes in old time, people made excursion by foot but now they don't. school uses a coach.
but we still call it ''Ensoku''. that is a kind of strange now.
well, we headed to Zoo of Toyohashi City where is about 50 minutes from Hamamatsu city by car.
This is not only Zoo park, the botanical garden and Natural History Museum is too in this park.
The generic name for this park is ''Nonhoi park''.
''Nonhoi'' is a dialect of Toyohashi. I looked up it.
Nonhoi means ''casual request agreement'' and ''Hey'' in English, I think..
In the kindergarten of which my child commutes, there are about 300 children in all school years.
600 people or more participated because this excursion also had had the guardian.
The some groups were formed by good friends then they walked in the park whenever they want.
We went to the Zoo.
I tell you top 3 of the impact animals at here.
First of all, hippo.
The pond for hippos is very beautiful, and they looks very comfortable to be there.
we talked
''Why so much grown fat they are??''
''but I have never seen thin hippo''
''aren't the foots too thin to support that gigantic body?'' etc
when we were talking that, a hippo was walking to in the pond and swimming very well.
and next is ostrich.
We were able to see the ostrich to be over the glass very closely.
I found the two holes in back of the head. can you see it on the photo?? ↓↓↓
Do you know what those are?
These are ears!!! did you know that?? I didn't know that.
They can be shut them when they are in the black blizzard!!! amazing!!
well, the last one is a child of orangutan.
She/He has lost mom last year and She/He was depressed.
now, a woman staff play with this child of orangutan and try have body contact instead of real mom.
this staff doesn't say anything and not be smile to child of orangutan.
but it looks like real orangutan's mom.
She gazes child's movement, and is slowly related.
That state became a good chance that I also watched relations with my child again.
We also have such word (excursion) to denote a trip to another town or city, to denote a tour of a city with a guide...
And we also have a Zoo in Minsk. But no hippos, unfortunately. Besides, ostriches are very popular. :)
Hi Miko, We have excursion in Singapore. Like a school short trip, not a weekend family event. Usually the primary and secondary school will send students for heritage tours or places of interest like Zoo & Bird Park. Sometimes even museums.