Well the excitement yesterday afternoon was an unexpected half an hour in the gym again, with all the classes lining up, split into girls/boys in their class groups (so about roughly 15 students in a line give or take), then they proceeded to tie their bandanas (generally used for wearing when we clean and for earthquake drills) around their legs in a three-legged race style, but with all fifteen or so kids tied together. No easy task I can tell you! After several attempts, lots of laughing and falling over, most of the groups managed to run up and down together. The Japanese sure do like their team building games. This was all in preparation for the school festival the end of the month, where various sports, music parades and weird and wonderful activities like this
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