More events

-          Sports festival, 運動会

-          Participants: elementary school pupils, their parents but mostly grandparents, and us留学生, the international students

-          The event started with a very long introduction as if it was a championship and then we had a collective warm-up as they show in Japanese movies, it is real. I could not believe how I got into that situation but I decided to just go with it.

-          Then we were divided into teams and mixed with the Japanese participants. Our red team lost almost everything and I would have never believed before how much fun it can be to play different sports games for eight hours with foreign children but boy was it amazing!

one of the games included running around with things, such as four balls

or a giant teddy bear in a stroller

my international crew

- word of the day: 綱引き tug war

- one more time in Miyjima! this time we also visited the 神社 and the aquarium.

- first karate practice!!! Everyone seems nice and no one speaks English (a good thing). I failed terribly at trying to remember everyone´s names and also at what kind of Japanese I am expected to speak with them but the environment of the gym was awesome. Can´t wait to go again! I really really hope to make a lot of friends here.

-          fire drill reached a completely different level here. All of us had to climb down the emergency ladder and then we yelled 火事だ　and used the fire extinguisher to aim at a traffic cone. Before the alarm started, we were supposed to try to fit under the tables in our rooms in case of an earthquake. We also got fancy emergency backpacks that seem fireproof.