1. How My Family Lives in Okinawa
By: Kayla

2. Introduction
Hi, my name is Kayla. We read the book “How My Family Lives in America”. This story was about three children who moved from different countries to America and how they brought their family traditions and culture to their new communities. I moved to Okinawa in 2009 because my dad got orders to work for the Marines in Okinawa. I am going to tell you about some of my family’s traditions and some of the traditions from Okinawa that are now part of my family.

3. My Family
I have 4 members in my family. Their names are Christian my brother, Justin my dad, Susan my mom, and Kayla me.! My dad is a pilot for the Marines. My family and I lived in SanDiego for five years. My dad grew up in Oregon, my mom grew up in the Philippines, my brother grew up in Texas, and I grew up in SanDiego. This picture also includes my mom’s cousin and her family.

4. Family Tradition
One of my family traditions is my family all got baptized. I got baptized when I was about three months old. I do not know how old my brother and my parents were when they got baptized. This is a picture of me getting baptized.

5. Family Traditions
Another tradition is every Christmas Eve my family and I open one present. We normally open the smallest one and save the big ones for Christmas Day. This picture of me is a picture of me opening my stocking, and being silly.

6. Okinawa Tradition
My friend Kelani and I, name all the shishi dogs we see. There are two shishi dogs in front of my building. The girl shishi dog name is Takako, and the boy shishi dog name is Fugie. There are two shishi dogs in front of Kelani’s building also. There names are Shisha and Everest. The picture is a picture of Shisha.

7. Okinawa Tradition
Another Okinawa tradition in my family is that we have to go to Kumon. Actually, my brother is in Kumon and I will be in Kumon next month. Kumon is where you learn math.

8. Closing
I have liked sharing my Japanese and family traditions with you. I hope you enjoyed my slides about my family living in Okinawa.

9. This project was based on the book How My Family Lives in America written by Susan Kuklin that was read and discussed in class. This project meets our social studies standards for looking at how different cultures make up and effect the way people live in a community.