PE Festival May 18, 2008

At 9:10 this morning, Amy, her host mother, and I went to the Momoyama-dai PE Festival. It was a long, hot time in the sun.
We had our own little tent to sit under (complete with giant blue tarp for everyone to sit on – take your shoes off first please!) that was on the ground of a local school. There were a bunch of different events, but Amy and I only participated in one. And we also missed radio taiso – yesss!
Our event was number 6. Me, Amy, Amy’s host mother, and two other random ladies had to do a relay race called mushizen, which means 1000 legged bug, or something like that? I have no idea, anyway, we had to basically all put our feet into these giant skis and walk together as fast as we could. We got last And the one lady pushed me and I fell into Amy’s host mother and then she fell. That was rude.
After that, Amy and I walked back to her house so Amy could change into shorts and then we walked back to the PE Festival. We just saw the end of some sort of musical chairs variation (hoops instead of chairs) before lunch started. A random guy came and gave me and Amy sketchy sushi and coffee….We were unimpressed and didn’t eat it. Then two random old men came and gave us beer. So we obligingly opened the beer and started to drink it. But then Amy’s host mother came over and confiscated the beer. Oops. And then lectured us on how we can’t drink alcohol (note: my host mother gives me alcohol all the time).
After that, Amy and I hung out on the swingset for a while before going home. We were supposed to be in two more events (egg and spoon type race and some sort of standing thing…I have no idea) but Amy faked sick so we could go home. In reality, we both had minor headaches and were super tired and cranky, most likely due to not enjoying the fact that we didn’t get to choose what events we got in and because of the sun. It was super hot and sunny out, and Amy got sunburned. Luckily, I just got a little color.
We walked back to Amy’s house and watched TV and ate nachos and icecream. It was good. Then, around 3:30 we went to Komyoike and hit up the 100 yen shop and purikura machines. We still haven’t quite figured out the purikura. We kind of press buttons and hope its the right thing, because we can’t understand a thing.