October 4&5, 2023 Visit to St. Albans, Tokyo

 

October 4&5, 2023

Visit to St. Albans , Tokyo

I visited st. Albans in Tokyo. Few year ago, I met Naomi Saito-Schmidt, a daughter of Pastor Linda,

in front of Keio. I was surprised and had a little chat with her. She was on the way to St. Albans an Anglican church. I was shocked that Presbytarian minister's daughter was attending an Anglican church. Later, with on line meeting of the Yokohama Christian Church with Wisconsin Pastor Linda she mentioned how great this St. Albans was with their two or three scout troops and the nursery school is so successful. I heard from my student's mother that Shuma had attended this nursery school before he went to Aoba and St, Mary's and she had very good impression about the place.

I became very curious. I thought they are the best example of how an "international" nursery should be.

So, I decided to visit them through Episcopalian minister/priest of St. Alban I had met in Christ Church.

I went on October 4, First I made the mistake of time, instead of 12:30 I went at 10:30; luckily the organist of the first Wednesday was the organist I had met before. She said to walk around the community. I did it.  The Chapel was just across the Grand Lodge and the other side corner is the  KCIA headquarter of Japan and next to that is the huge Russian embassy, about the size of the USA embassy and behind is the American Club. In front is the tallest building in Japan, Azabudai Hills

and had a sign of the British School in Tokyo , someday I would visit. I just walk to their 15,000 Square meters campus and saw the principal I knew from the War Cemetery.

He said to come in so I did and heard from him his 800 enrollment is going to be soon 900 (not to  be mentioned but you can guess that the well to do HK British are coming and that is the reason the building and the school exist. How great Tokyo is and how my RBL contact works)

The nursery story  to be continued.