School Days: Sports Day

The official time for Sports Day is in October, but both Big Sister's and Little Brother's were this May. Today was the junior high's. No ribbons are given to individual students. For this junior high, there were five teams, red, green, yellow, white and blue. They were competing with each class and grade. The teams got points for the number of "winners" of the events. There were mostly races and relays. There was tug of war.

Big Sister is part of a volunteer club that goes to nursing homes and festivals to perform Japanese dances. They perform at Sports Day, too. Members of other classes were taught a dance to perform with them. Here is a picture of Big Sister dancing just with her club members.

The other picture is the scene outside a conference room. Parents went in to get out of the sun to eat their lunch. they took boxed lunches. Street shoes are not worn inside the school so everyone left theirs outside the door. Looks like a lot of people went on home for lunch. There were a few of us eating our lunch outside in the sun, too.