Monday, November 9, 2009

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.

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[Kids waiting for us and wary of our diseases]

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

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[Explaining the rules]

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[Event #1: Find the sweetest Orange]

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[Event 2:  Yell as loud as possible}

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[Nagasaki really is beautiful]

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

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[I was pushing the girls around on the zipline]

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[LUNCH!]

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[Announcing the winners…]

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

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

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[My team, “DIAMOND HALLOWEEN”]

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[Schoolyard]

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[Kids climbing through the windows to see us]

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

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[The Spoils]

4 comments:

Jen said...

Diamond Halloween?! Yell as loudly as possible?! And how do they judge the sweetest orange?! So much LOL! I wish you got to work with the little kids too :( They're funny.

Muuurgh said...

The kids got a good lesson in riding in crowded vehicles if they wouldn't have had one of those already, heh heh. Oh, and that would have sucked if someone on that thing were actually sick.

Unknown said...

wow, looks like a lot of fun!

我觉得日本太有意思了! :D

Jackie said...

That is so cool....The kids are so cute! I got a laugh out of the ones in masks.

What was for lunch? (Besides the oranges, that is.)