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Published: November 16th 2007
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Sports day.
Or is it? I think the correct term would be activities day, or event day as sports feature very much in a Japanese sports day.
The Ikina sports day is akin to something like thin the English Primary school sports day, whereby family and community members all join and the events are not so much as to single out the elite athletes but to give everybody a chance to compete in races, dances and various other challenges.
Features this year included the 10 legged man race, tug of war, relays and giant skipping to mention a few. Along with a Russian folkdance and traditional Japanese dance performed by yours truly, singing and dancing that is - multi-tasking.
More unique events included the 19C wheel and stick race, still going strong in Japan, the man-unt, as I like to call it, where various members of the crowd must be found and raced with, and the Disney fantasy Nursery school dance.
This was all accompanied by a rather epic raffle for prizes included a bicycle, DVD player, crates of beer, and a oil drum of a petrol - all kindly donated by the local community, an
For glory and the prize!
My Elementary school students prizes in my opinion, to be of a pretty high quality for such small island.
The build up, practice and subsequent, moving of the date of the sports day, meant me working an 8 day week and so by the end of the sports day, which was topping 28 degrees C, slightly cooler because of rain, but still very very humid, meant that I finished of the week, exhausted and soaked and dirty and ready for the after party, hosted in my community center, where I drank to much and suddenly was back home at about 7 in the evening drunk, with nothing to do.
Ah well, it was very memorable and as the JHS is closing next year it means that this will be the last sports day for the time being.
It was unfortunate for that reason that I could not run in the relay as I had managed to pull a small muscle in my right thigh in the practice for the relay, but life is cruel sometimes. In fact it was a typically busy week but masked with injuries as the previous mid week I had to rush out of work to the
All the colours of the rainbow
These flags relate tot he 6 districts of my ilsnad who all compete in the various contests to take the overall prize of being the mutts nuts of he iland. I am in 2 bundan or purple district who i think came last.... dentist as my wisdom teeth had become infected and I was suffering some of the most intense pain ever!! But as they say, when rains it pours, and that being also the case for the sports day, I took it as a sign that, this would be a bad week and that the next would be a good one.
And so it was, apart from being chased around the classroom of my primary school by a 6 year old with a crab that he had snuck into school, a performance he carried out the week before with the class stag beetle, and obviously got such a great reaction that he had spent time looking for a more horrific creature, possibly, had even done research it on the internet.
I wonder if the next week he will whip out mukade or such like when I arrive next week, or maybe if I’ m lucky, just through a cat at my head.
All in all though that beginning of the 2nd term has got me smiling and I am even contemplating purchasing a new touring bike to get out there and so up what could be my only second but
final year on my island
Time flies.
This is course put out very late again, and so int he time between, I turned up at the school next week to find that the new school pets were some sort of small american lobster.
Or a large shrimp, and with very big claws for their size. Each class has about five of these things in small fish tank and so what I got was a repeat of the previous week but in every class with much larger beasts......
Speaking of beasts, I was in my junior high school a week later and wandering around the class as my teacher gave a grammar talk to my 3rd years on another rather hot sultry day, when I looked down and there was a frog on my foot.
I was to sayt he least a little bit suprised and honestly thought that it had just leaped from the sky and this was a sign from the gods!!
In fact my student next to me had put it on my shoe from the large half water bottle that he
Yasacoi
A homegrown song about lifting, we can all relate to that. kept on his desk, named after the pack of tissues that he had found it on the week before.
It was about the size of a 1p piece, very green, vey cute. my teacher just laughed and and carried on the lesson and the little frog climbed back into his water bottle and went for a swim.
Nice.
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denis
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after after party
After you returned home from the afterparty you had so little to do with your drunken self that you called me for about an hour talking about buying 'the flying croissant' which is i understand to be your new touring bike.