Today, I attended my first sports day event in Japan. All schools in Japan do sports day and they make a pretty big deal of it, preparing for it for a week before it happens. Then during the weekend, all the kids and teachers go to school and do all sorts of physical (as you could guess) activities like relays, cross country, dancing, and human pyramids. The kids divide up into 2 teams (red team and white team, I'm assuming this has to do with the colors of the Japanese flag) and wear hachimaki (head bands) to give them spirit! It was really cool to see and it's always nice to see my kids outside of the English classroom environment. Here's a couple of pictures of my kids ... 
Like their makeup? It's flour ... they had to find and eat a marshmallow burried in flour as part of relay. Cute, aren't they?
These kids made this human pyramid fast!
Some of my friends held a beer tasting party last night. Everyone had to bring a 6 pack of beer from a different place and we went through the whole process of tasting, rating, eating, and finally decided on a winner ... actually it was a tie between a micro-brew from Tsugaru (the area I live in) and good ole' Sam Adams. Rated last was Budweiser ... thought that was kind of funny. It was fun, and when you have to taste 9 different beers, you definately get a buzz!
Well, until next time~ bye bye, see you!
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