But despite the crappy weather, the school still attempted to continue with the sports festival, even during the torrential downpour.
Like everything else Japanese, it started with an opening ceremony and address by the principal, which in turn, resulted in approximately 10 minutes of bowing at random people as they got on and off the stage, before the seriously sports began.
I seriously feel that if sports days and stuff were like this in Australia, I may have actually liked sport. Rather than just do lots of running and cross country and obligatory sprints that everyone had to do, there was skipping rope, related games, a three-legged-race like thing, only involving the whole class in a row, and year level-specific sports. My favourite sport was the 1st years, who played a game called "tyhoon".
Sigh. If only sports were like this in Australia. But the sports day was eventually cancelled after lunch, when they realised it was probably a hazard to have people running on the school ground while a couple people's sole job was to shovel dirt on puddles to help avoid slippage uring the relay. Sadly, they decided this after everyone did their relay, which unfortunately, included me running on the teacher's team. I would have liked to brag here about how I beat the arses of 12 and 13 year old boys and girls, but sadly, I didn't...
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