I went into work a little later today to go to the speech festival. One student from each middle school participated and 13/17 schools participated. The top three finishers won a trip to Naha to go to “states” and the first place also got an electric Japanese-English dictionary! In my opinion that dictionary should have gone to the last place person… That’s the person whose gonna need it most right?? At the speech festival the kocho-sensei from Kita middle gave me this head-band thing that you wear when you do kendo. He’s so awesome.
Tonight: Second Kendo practice. I was looking forward to practicing again with the youngins. But today I got special treatment! I got private lessons from one of the sensei, whose English was good enough for me to understand. He taught me the basics.
Towards the end he was teaching me this type of step that you do.. It’s just basically taking a step with your right foot, stomping really hard and then follow with the left foot. When he demonstrated, his stomp made a “BAM” sound with a slight echo. oooo sugoi. When I tried to do it, my stomp sounded like a “SMACK” sound with pain on the bottom of my foot. It was like the feeling you get on your belly when you do a belly-flop in a pool, but on my foot. The entire practice I couldn’t get the BAM sound, so tonight I’ll be practicing my stomping at home. I don’t think anyone lives on the first floor below me.
Practice is so fun. It’s gorging hot in the gym, so everyone sweats like crazy. It’s the good kind of sweat tho. Not the kind of sweat you get from sitting around at home scratching yourself.
Anyway I wouldn’t mind some shave ice right about now.
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