A huge thank you to the lovely E for sending me these pictures:
Getting the school bus, Japanese-style:
Quite swanky, you might think. Well, look inside:
Yep, computers and desks! Here they are in use:
And here’s how they get to school in India:
I wonder who has more fun?!
I think I’d prefer the laptop bus, but I guess the kids have more fun in the Indian one.
CJ xx
I’d like the Indian one ….but with air conditioning. I’m such a wimp in the heat xx
Blimey! My lad gets the bus to school and the best entertainment they have is throwing apple cores out of the top windows at the kids from the other schools.
That sounds like the best!! 🙂
Haha I’ll take the Indian one every time. In fact, I travelled in a bus very similar to that one on our transfer from the airport to the hotel in Goa. I’m always amazed just how many people they can cram in!
….and that’s the last time I’m getting an airport transfer with you, hon xx
Wow, aren’t those Japanese children lucky.
I know!! Mind you I bet they’re all watching cartooons instead of doing their homework 🙂
There’s a man near us who has three kids all at a local private primary school. Each morning I see him on my way back from the dog-walk and sometimes I see him in the afternoon school run. He rides a bike and attached to the front of the bike is a little cart-like structure where the three kids sit. When it rains, the cart has a perspex cover over it and you can just about make out the three heads wearing their little school boaters! I bet they are the talk of the school, if not the neighbourhood. And no carbon footprint either.
Oh, that sounds adorable, Addy! Quite a feat pedalling all three of them, too, must keep the daddy fit 🙂
That’s what I thought too. He pushes them to and from school on that bike-cart contraption every morning and afternoon in all weathers!
The Indian kids look like chickens transported to a slaughter house… But still, I wouldn’t have wanted to be a Japanese child. It looks all a bit too clinical to me…
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Ooooh, thanks for the lovely award! Gorgeous! I agree, the Japanese way looks a bit like sci-fi
Wow that indian bus is so adorable!! Yeah the indian kids seem to have a lot of fun (was in India last year) whereas the japanese kids are hothoused and forced to perform academically.
So pleased you got through my spam filter at last!! I think India is probably best if you want to grow up smiling 🙂
Flip – don’t know what’s worse…squashing into a little cage attached to a cycle or sitting at a desk having to do school work…I’m thinking the latter!
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