June 19, 2012
Tatiana's Washimiyasai Experience!
On Monday June 11, we had the school’s sports festival. The day was quite cloudy, and it rained a little bit, but in a way that’s a good thing because we didn’t get sunburn or heat stroke.
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I was expecting to do some boring sports like in the sports days I have had before, but in Japan it is totally different! The competitions look more like games, so it wasn’t boring at all!
I participated in the long skipping rope and the whole-class relay parts with my homeroom. We didn’t win any of the competitions, but the important part was that we had fun together and could build some team spirit!
The whole-class relay was really interesting to see, we all had a different thing to do. I was in the “oni no pantsu” team, so one of my classmate and I had to put on a very big bag around ourselves and run together. Because of the bag we could not take big steps, so it was a little bit hard to run. In addition, the grass was all wet from the rain, so it was quite slippery! The other parts of the relay were carrying someone on a bamboo stick, on someone’s back, a sack race, and a 3-legged race; the last runner had to put on a power ranger costume and take the class flag before running his lap. It was quite fun to do, and very weird to watch!
At the end of the day, my class took a group picture.
It was a very fun day! Even though we didn’t do much actual sport, I was quite tired at the end.