Japanese vocab undokai: Japanese "sports day", held at all schools once a year oyako: parent and children gambatte: do your best! you can do it! Kocho sensei: the Principal genki: energetic, lively mecha: very very very kakkoii: cool oshare: fashionable, stylish, trendy On Sunday, May 18 (after the Hanshin Tigers game), I got up at 7:30am to drag myself (up the hill no less) to my Junior High School, Naga Chuugakkou, at 8:00am...why you ask? Because it's undokai of course! Every year at Japanese Schools, they hold a 'sport's day', which lasts all day. While some schools are merciful and have it on a regular school day some, like mine, prefer to invade personal time and force the students, teachers and staff to come out on a weekend day. The only good thing about that is
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