Sports day

Twice a year there is a kyugi taikai (ball sports day) held at school. All the students are divided into teams and compete in one of 4 different sports: badminton, volleyball, soccer or basketball.

Each sport is run in a tournament style, with the winning teams moving on the finals at the end of the day. While waiting for their turn to play, students are warming up all around the school.

The classmates who are not in a game will cheer for those who are, so there is always a lot of cheering going on.

Before the start of one of the basketball games, here are some students getting themselves psyched up!
Then they go on to play!

This year, the teachers formed a team and competed against a couple of the volleyball teams. It was loads of fun!! During one of the games, I dove for a ball at the same time as another teacher…he did some kind of summersault thing and his foot hit me right in the eye! It hurt, but in the rush of the game, I forgot about the pain and we kept playing.

Here are some of the girls who were on volleyball teams.

The weather was gorgeous today, as it has been for the last few days. took my camera up to the Oral Communication room and took a picture of the view. What a gorgeous day it was!