May 18: Undokai!

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June 3rd 2008

Published: June 19th 2008

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 S... Read Full Entry

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two of the first grade girls

kocho sensei

was one of the scavenger hunt objects I guess...

trying to score points

kind of like mini basketball with no running

he shoots...

parents trying it out

baton relay

waiting for the pass

they might barely register as alive in class, but they really do try their best at Undokai

the second heat

more jump rope

3rd graders

fumiyoshi swinging the rope

see- she's wearing my glasses!

and so is she...

Eriko Mizukami....I think...she's Mariko's twin sister

trivia prize

They had a trivia about school teachers and about the school...and here is the fabulous prize (turned out to be an electric fan)

ski race

haha...sadistic...

the boys here

have not problem getting close to each other in general...like it's totally normal to see them hanging on to each other and stuff like that and no one would think twice about it

22nd June 2008

Brent
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they should do that in America. it would be fun and yeah the ski looks hard

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