nothing to prove

chicken out of water

Sports day at my base school, Nichu, got postponed due to rain so instead we had it on Tuesday. Thank God because I really needed the sleep on Sunday. Friday was the welcome enkai and Sunday had two other sports days followed by an enkai, for more read my previous blog. In any case I spent all of Tuesday at Nichu being somewhat invovled in their sports day and by somewhat involved I really mean I was a glorified adult cheerleader. Nichu is so big that they had four separate teams and you are going to love the names:
Red Bull Rose
Yellow Super Poison Bee
Blue Wind Pirates
Green Cloud Guarded Dragon
Who comes up with these names? The crazy students of course. All the leaders wear special uniforms that are supposed to represent their team name. These costumes are of course made by all the other team members so the leaders don't have to do a thing. Granted the leaders have to come up with all the cheers, songs, and choreograph the dances. I am telling you this stuff is uber intense. I was on the Blue Wind Pirates and although I really didn't do much on their team I think they were excited to have the ALT on their side.


The tire pull. Two teams face off and the goal is to bring as many tires back to you side as possible. Luckily this event is reserved for the third year junior high students because it gets a little rowdy in there. Each tire is given a color and that color in turn has a certain point value. Obviously the bigger tires are worth more and the team with the most points wins. Some of the students would get dragged through the dirt just to make it more difficult for the other team to get the tire across the line. It was pretty hilarious to watch these hoards of students try to get one tire across the line while tugging and pulling away at the tire and each other.


Chicken without the water. Remember that game you used to play when you were little in the pool with one person on another's shoulders facing another team while trying to knock each other off? Same concept. Take away the water, make three girls as a base and give them head bands to rip off each others heads. This got real interesting, especially since it is only the girls. Good thing they had the no nails rule because let's face it I thought they were going to rip each others faces off. When it is all said and done of course they politely give back the head bands they managed to take and say I'm sorry. How nice of the girls.


Capture the flag with a pole. A modified version of capture the flag with the flag being on top of a pole in broad day light. There is again two teams that go head to head and this time it is only the males. A quick catch, they have to do this one shoeless and shirtless so no one gets intentionally hurt. This one is by far the most dangerous of all the events. Anyway the team has to create a base to try and hold the pole vertical and then the rest try to rush to the other teams pole to get the flag. They can do it by any means necessary, climbing on top of people and pole or knocking and pulling the pole over to bring the flag to the ground. Both are difficult but in the end there is only one winner.


When all was said and done for the day, the Yellow Super Poison Bees won sports day and took home the flag. The Blue Wind Pirates put up a great fight and at one point even had the lead but ended up in third. Overall I had a great time even though it was really difficult for me just to watch from the sidelines. I really wanted to participate but it was after all their day for fun. Hopefully it was enough for me just being there to cheer for them.

posted by Aaron @ 10:51 PM