Yamauchi, Saki

The best present I have ever received was three big stuffed animals. I got them for christmas when I was seven. I them as a present from my parents pretending to be Santa Claus. However, that year Santa Claus didn’t bring me presents while I was sleeping on Christmas night, but a young man who delivered the presents during the daytime before Christmas. When I was watching, my parents told me, Santa Claus has to bring presents to the other children on Christmas Day, so instead, Santa Claus asked a young man to deliver them to you earlier than everyone else. As a 7-year-old, I believed it and thought that Santa Claus was very busy, working hard to send presents to children all over the world.

I was really happy that my parents put a lot of thought into preparing to make me happy. And, the stuffed animals were characters that I really liked at the time, and the stuffed animals were so big and cute that I couldn’t hold them at the age of seven, and they were like a treasure to me.

I still have those stuffed animals in my room, and every time I see them, I am happy to remember these episodes.

Yamauchi, Saki