JHS Sports Festival

Despite being a public holiday, Azuma JHS had its annual sports festival last Friday. So I was up at sparrow fart and made it to school by 7am. Now, the past two years it has rained on the day of the festival, and all the teachers, students and their parents have sponged the field dry so the festivities could get underway. I did not want to do that again this year. So imagine the smile on my face when I got to school and the field was dry (a typhoon was supposed to arrive that morning) and the sun was shining. Finally, a sports day that didn't involve sponging!

And the day was great. It rained a bit, but that didn't dampen the spirits of the kids - or the teachers.

Just before lunch, we had the relay. Because the school is small, everyone runs in the relay, and this year - for the first time - we had a teachers team. And we kicked arse! The kids had nothing on us. But my team - the blue team - came in after us and actually ended up winning the point tally on the day. Yay to us!

So I had a blast - the best sports festival I've had here. But sadly, it was also my last.