Another friday, another day at elementary school. Today i was off to issai higashi elementary school. A nice cute small school. Today, luckily only had to teach one class due to what else but sports day training. They were in rehearsal for sports day the following weekend.
I seen my junior high kids sports day but never the little ones. So it was a first. First everyone in the school was split into two teams, white and red. Big kids and little kids mixed together. They had chants at the begining between the teams on the big outside dirt ground. Next came the first event. Two huge balls, almost as tall as me were rolled out. One red ball and one white, the object was the kids to stand in a line around the field, and when the big ass ball came rolling they would have to push it along from their spot. It was quite a sight when they started and the ball was rolling, the ball was so big that i was afraid that some of the 1st graders would get runned over or something. Well no one got runned over in the end, but there was alot of cheering on the white team as they won, but the poor kids on the red side didnt look to happy.
Throughout the day there were a series of events such as that big ball race, kids doing traditional japanese dances, and even a crew of youngings doing a dance to a mickey mouse song all dressed up in mickey mouse gear, oh my how they will not forgive their parents later on for the embarassing outfit, but hey when you are young everything looks cute. Then between the various events there were a million relay races between the teams.
Before things wrapped up the dark clouds rolled in, and rain started pouring like crazy, kids running for cover. Practice was over, but then just like that 5 minutes later it stopped. Oh well it was close enough to lunch time and i was hungry! School lunch here i come!
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