| Sports Day Every year, in September, schools have a "sports day." As the name suggests, it's a day in which the kids all come to school on Saturday and play games, but not conventional sports. It's more like three-legged races (only with a big twist here), and capture the flag, and relay races. It's more or less a big bonding day for the kids, and as near as I can tell all schools, at all grade levels, do it. It was kind of fun, but I had to go to two of them, which got a little redundant. Still, it's a neat day (and it lasts all day long--about 9-5). Here's some pictures. |
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| Each team paints a sign (which is a contest of its own) to represent them. Below are the signs from one of my schools. All teachers are assigned to a team, and I was with purple--their picture is an akuma, a devil (it's from behind and those streaky things are wings). | ||||||||||||||
| These are a couple of the games. Above is a capture the flag-like game, mixed with "chicken." To the left is what is best described as a "multi-legged race"--it's like a three-legged race, but with a whole squad of kids. Each team had two or three groups like this and they ran a relay. | ||||||||||||||