Jen sent me FOOD!

I like food.

 

COOKIES!

Pita Chips! Twizzlers! Spice Drops!  Good n’ Plenty! Fig Newtons!
Sunflower seeds!  Banana Chips! Chocolate!

Knows me better than myself.

Kakunan Festival

My second school, Kakunan Special Education School, had its school festival last week. As part of the event the kids make lots of crafts and sell them as a fundraiser. Here are the items I picked up.

Wooden Alligator who doesn’t afraid of anything

Some bowls and lavender, also I got some lavender soap

2010 Calendar

Notebooks with illustrations on each page

Lame

A Hill

Orange Day!

A few weeks ago I had a great business trip to an elementary school, which is great because I hardly ever am hanging out with little kids.  We went up to a park on top of some mountain and played games and picked oranges.  The entire event was well organized with groups of 7 kids being assigned to two foreigners to make a team.  My kids even wrote me a letter in Japanese, we played some catch with an American football (which they couldn’t figure out how to use), and at the end of the day they gave me their nametags as a going away present.

 

[Kids waiting for us and wary of our diseases]

[We had to take a break going up the mountain since some of the smaller kids were having trouble]

[Explaining the rules]

[Event #1: Find the sweetest Orange]

 

[Event 2:  Yell as loud as possible}

[Nagasaki really is beautiful]

[Event 3: Slide down the hill, pick up your sled, and run back]

[I was pushing the girls around on the zipline]

[LUNCH!]

[Announcing the winners…]

[This was crazy.  We rode the bus back down the mountain but there weren’t nearly enough seats for everyone]

[I’d love to work at one of these schools]

[My team, “DIAMOND HALLOWEEN”]

 

[Schoolyard]

[Kids climbing through the windows to see us]

[The ticket “machine” at this tiny station.  It operates on the honor system]

 

[The Spoils]