@Jak, @ch0si
I was born in June.
But at the time schools had leeway and I started Kindergarten at four because I could already read. Also perhaps because the school was a concept school and wanted to inflate their test scores by attracting students who would perform well even if their...
@Jak
2nd year in Japan corresponds to Junior year in the United States.
I was sixteen. Had my parents allowed me to skip second grade as the school system suggested, I would have been fifteen.
The best embroidery shops in Kin, Okinawa (back in the early eighties) were amazing.
Artisans who could look at a picture and embroider a copy freehand while concentrating on the source.