June 14, 2016

JET teacher Laurence's Undokai experience !

Hello all! Laurence here!


I hope you are dealing well with the beginning of summer (or winter for our friends in the south)! I, being a Northern gal and all, don’t deal too well with hot weather but despite that (and dealing with a pretty nasty bronchitis) I have managed to survivel so far. The summer spirit kicked in quickly at Seiritsu Gakuen (or at the Higashiwashinomiya grounds to be exact) with our annual Sports Day on June 1st !


I have been reading about Sports Days in Japan for years in articles and comic books and so I was super thrilled to experience one for myself. We did have Sport Day in my high school in Canada but it was completely different from Japanese Sport Days. While my school had a more serious, traditional Greco-Roman approach to Sports Day, with events like spear and disk throwing as well as the long and high jumps events, the Seiritsu Sports Day was all about making exercising fun and exciting. All the classes designed shirts and made flags, some students wore funny costumes too.


The events themselves were really entertaining and I had never heard of some of them before. I especially liked the costume relay events and the event where all the students in a team try to fit together on a small platform in what could be described as a sweaty, loving, competition-driven massive group hug.


Overall, despite the super hot weather, it was a pretty amazing day. 9/10 would attend again.


Laurence Dube
JET Assistant Language Teacher

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Seiritsu Gakuen is a private co-educational high school created in 1925 and it is located in Tokyo, Japan.

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