Kawashimo Nicole from the early 80's

I "met" someone via my family blog yesterday. She commented on one of the Yochien postings,

So glad you posted this. I am 30 years old and live in California. I went to this school when I was your daughter's age. Unfortunately, I lived in Japan for only 2 1/2 years. I have been blessed with a trip back to Japan this year and was trying to locate this yochien. I have had vivid memories of my time at this school, but have few pictures to really solidify those memories. I was amazed at the pictures; exactly as I remembered! I will be visiting March 31-April 10th. Hope your daughter enjoys it as much as I did.

I sent her an e-mail saying I'd love to meet up with her and arrange a visit to the Yochien and she sent me this picture of her class. She is the little girl in the red outfit! :)

The uniforms were just switched to the current ones Claire wears a few years ago. I think they had these for a long time! They also still have the safety pin with the cute tag with the kid's name on it. I just forget to pin it on Claire.

How neat to connect!  

Thanks for writing Nicole! ☺