英会話プライベートレッスン

Hello everyone, this is Anand as always with another Awesome English update! ?I learned that even if you have let your New Year resolutions go, in Japan you get another chance to improve yourself. ?This second chance is called Setsubun. ?It occurs every year on February 3rd and involves one person putting on a demon mask and the others members of their family throwing beans while saying 福は内鬼は外! or literally “Luck in, demons out!”. ?I suppose that it is plenty of fun for kids and rather painful for the demon. ?It is supposed to represent the cleaning out of evil spirits from the household and is further supposed to represent a clean start to the new year. ?Of course, since the majority of you are Japanese people I don’t need to tell you all about Setsubun. ?However, the reason I bring it up is that thanks to my work in preschool I get to try this with kids! ?When I worked in elementary and junior high schools I never got a chance to teach kids about it, but now I get to throw myself into it and hopefully teach a great lesson without making kids cry. ?I spent last night making masks for the event, so let’s hope the kids have a good time! ?I’ll let you know how it goes.

Luck in, demons out!

All the best!