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Trying too Hard to Find Happiness
Episode 56

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The Ippongi family has been officially acknowledged by

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the city of Tokyo as a foster care home.

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Congratulations!

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Thank you! We did it!

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Can I take a look at it?

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It's true, my name is on it!

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Amazing!

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The two-day training for newly registered

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foster parents finally started.

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At this training session, they'll have lectures

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and group discussions, and also a chance to visit

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one of the child care facilities.

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Good morning!

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Your name please...

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It's Ippongi Hitomi.

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These are today's materials.

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Ms. Ippongi...

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Good morning.

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It's about to begin...

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I know this will be useful for you.

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It looks like...

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...I'm the youngest one here, doesn't it?

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Of course! There aren't many 20 year-old foster

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parents around.

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Oh, right.

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Ms Ippongi...

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Mr. Izumiya... Hello.

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Isn't it great that you've been

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recognized as a foster care home?

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Thank you.

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But it all starts now.

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Please apply yourself and study hard.

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I will.

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This newly registered foster parents training is meant

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for new foster parents who will be caring for

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foster children in their homes.

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A case like Hitomi's where she is living in the home

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with the children as an assistant to Katsutaro

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is very rare.

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Good morning, everyone.

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I'm Izumiya, the section chief of the child care

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counseling center's treatment services section.

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In school, we have what we call classmates or

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contemporaries of the same school, but for all of you

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who are here for this training class, you can be

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considered foster parent classmates.

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You're all here as foster parents.

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Being a foster parent comes

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with many hardships.

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You can talk with each other about your concerns and

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encourage each other...you'll feel like you

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have someone to rely on.

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Treasure this chance to meet each other,

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enjoy the next two days, and make friends.

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Thank you...

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People decide to become foster parents

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for a variety of reasons.

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They want to be useful to society in some way...

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After raising their own children, they want to

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raise another child...

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Or there are those who don't have any children...

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Whatever the reasons the foster parents and foster

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children will form a new family.

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You'll soon be meeting the children, and

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these children for one reason or another are

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no longer able to live with their parents.

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Many of them have been deeply hurt,

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and carry that hurt in their hearts.

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But that's not the children's fault.

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It's a family problem.

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It could be illness, poverty, neglect...

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There are a variety of circumstances.

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These children carry more sadness and pain in

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their hearts than we can even imagine.

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Please let these children get a taste of what it

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means to be a family.

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Make them realize how wonderful and warm

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a family can be.

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And that an adult is looking after them.

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Let them experience that feeling every single day.

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If you do that, you'll see
the children's eyes sparkle.

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And they'll be able to enjoy going to school

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What he said reminded Hitomi of

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the three children living with them.

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Shota, Yuria and Akira
had smiles on their

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faces now because of
all the time they spent in

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the warmth of Katsutaro
and Setsuko's home.

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And Keiko, too.

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In truth, they're not
my real parents, but

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I thought - they are my parents,

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and I am their child.

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These people who fully turn
to face me ARE my parents...

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In the afternoon, they started a discussion

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about becoming a foster parent.

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In each group, an experienced
foster parent

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served as an advisor.

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About the last name...

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We're wondering whether to raise the child

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using the child's real last name
or our last name?

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That is something to be concerned about, isn't it.

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I think it's case by case.

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For school children, thinking
about when they leave home,

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Many foster parents will
use the child's real name

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from the beginning.

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But for younger children,
it's hard to know how

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much they grasp the situation, and

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to avoid confusion, a lot of foster homes

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use their own last names as an alias.

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In our case, the children
all use their own last names.

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Our nameplate lists different names for three

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of the children living with us.

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Are there young children?

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Yes... we have a child in the third grade.

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His name is Shota, and he
uses his real name.

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So you're already thinking
about the children's

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future, aren't you?

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To let them know they each have a life

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of their own before they came to us.

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One of the children is already independent,

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and is a nurse now. Her name is Keiko...

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She came over the other day
to tell my grandpa that

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she's getting married, and to ask for his approval...

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Grandpa told her that she didn't have to worry

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about what he thought anymore... in fact,

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he was grateful that she came home to him as if

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she were his real daughter.

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Keiko was this little, and now she's telling me that

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she's getting married. Isn't it strange!

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This is what you brought the "hijiki"
(type of seaweed) in.

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And this was the "kinpira gobo".
(fried burdock root)

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It was really delicious.

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This one was the "gomayogoshi"...
 (black sesame sauce)

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Do you want to count them all again?

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Katsu... you remember when
Keiko broke all of those

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planters over there...?

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I do... Keiko really was a handful...

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She was the first child
we took in as foster parents.

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She grew up to be a really good daughter.

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Thanks to all the hardship
you went through to raise her.

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I watered them everyday...

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I'm talking about Keiko!

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Being a nurse is hard work,
and a respectable profession.

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Maybe I should enter them
in the next exhibition.

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Not the plants, Keiko!

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I know!

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You're hopeless.

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Hello!

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Hitomi...?

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How was today's training?

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I really learned a lot.

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I feel like we're classmates.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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It must be rough...

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You have to do a training like this every time

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you register new foster parents, don't you?

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Yes, but we still don't have
enough foster parents.

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There are so many children
who need foster care.

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So, even if we're busy, we don't mind.

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Hitomi... you have one more day's training...

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Please do your best.

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I will.

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Goodbye.

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Child nursing home

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The next day, they went to visit a home

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for orphaned, neglected
or abused children.

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It looks like everyone's here, doesn't it?

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My face is small, my heart
is big, and they call me

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Kubota, the man with the mustache.

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The children who will be coming to live with all

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of you, have all lived here at a facility like this

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or at a home for infants.

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The children are all at school right now, so

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we'll start by looking at the dormitory.

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I'm going to check with the dormitory first,

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so please wait here for a moment.

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Hitomi?

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Keiko!

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What are you doing here?

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We came to see the orphanage
as part of our training.

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What are you doing here?

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I was raised here, before
I went to live in Tsukishima.

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Is that right?

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Keiko?

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Kubo-Papa...

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Do you know each other?

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She's my Tsukishima father's granddaughter.

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She's looking after Shota
and the other children.

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Is that right? Nice to meet you.

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Everyone...

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This is one of our graduates...

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I looked after her for three years.

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I'm sorry to intrude.

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I came here today because
I have an announcement...

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What is it?

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I'm going to get married.

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Really?

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Congratulations!

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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I want to thank you, too.

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I'm so glad.

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It was painful for Hitomi
to see Keiko look so happy.

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Let's dance with the Eyebrow Cats!

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It's begun - the Eyebrow Cats

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Commentary by B-Boy MOBO. Enjoy!

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Get into it and try the cat poses

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It's a cat dance, so pose like a cat.

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Big, wide open and... POSE

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Whiskers pose!

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Then... eyebrows,
eyebrows, eyebrows!

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And now, introductions

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Yuka... big movements

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Hitomi... really big...

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Then Junko... very good.

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And last is Moe... nice spin!

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Now, this is a hip hop step,
New Jack Swing.

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Use your hips to get the rhythm!

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Slow the rhythm down...
Next, the Running Man.

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And the Handshake...

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it's fun if you do it in pairs.

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Try it with your friends

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siblings and parents!

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Then all four touch and pose! MEOWWWW!

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This is another hip hop step.
It's called Housing.

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Move to the side...

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Then step... and tap...

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Slow the rhythm down.

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Cross your arms, and pose.

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Nodding heads

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Everyone gather together and....

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POSE!

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Meow!

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Great, how was that?

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That was the Eyebrow Cats dance.

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Please watch, and try it with your family, siblings

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and friends! Dance the
"Eyebrow Cats" together.

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Commentary by: M-O-B-O...!