So much stuff, so little time!
This is likely to be a long post... Sorry. :p
Where to start? Morning, of course... :p Get up, breakfast, leave for school. Not terribly exciting. I watched my class practice jump rope for a bit (there's another competition on Monday... I think I wrote about it in a previous post), then we went in. Then some 1st graders came in and gave us little picture frames with our class picture in it. I didn't get one for some unknown reason.... There was one for me, but I didn't get it at the time. Then we practiced singing with the rest of the 6th graders, then we went back to the classroom. They talked about stuff I couldn't follow at all...... Bear with me if I'm getting a little mixed up. I was tired this morning... I'm always tired on Fridays. Most people wont know the difference anyway... ;) In all honesty that part wasn't terribly interesting.... What came after, now THAT was cool!
I am talking, of course, about the farewell party! The 6th graders walked in with 1st graders, so the 1st graders came to our class first. We got paired up... I shared a first grader. :p Apparently there wasn't enough of them. ;) But that was no problem. We walked down to the gym, then went in. It was dark, and most of the school was already there.... In fact we were the last. Everyone was clapping... It was kind of weird. Of course it was for the 6th graders, and I was just there because.... But it was still fun. We walked under an arch thing, down the center, then around to our chairs. We got chairs because we're special. ;)
In all honesty I didn't follow quite a bit of the party too closely either... With the help of the program, though, I can try. :p
First up were the 3rd graders. They played Puff The Magic Dragon, and I sat in the back being amused.... Americans will probably understand this quite well.... Why I was sitting there laughing to myself. They did a good job though.... They also did some skits, and sang a song. Complete with pompoms.... That was interesting. :p Nanako was somewhere, but I'm not sure where....
After that were the first graders! They did Jyugemu (a whole skit/dance/song kind of thing), which was very cute. Some of my American readers (are there anymore? I don't even know, since no one COMMENTS *hint hint*) may know it as my bad spelling... Gigemu... The long name that I randomly say sometimes, though I only know the short version. ;) Yuutaro was up there, but because I was in the back and have bad vision (and I always forget to wear my glasses....) I couldn't really tell where.
Now let's see if I get this right.... I know from the program that the 4th graders were next, and I THINK they were the ones doing the Kappa thing.... But I may be mixing stuff up now. Either way, the 4th graders did their skit, and either way it was good, because they were all good!
After that were the 2nd graders, and if I'm remembering right (but this might be getting mixed up with the 4th graders.... I can't remember for sure) they did a skit/dance/song thing that I really didn't understand.... I only got the rabbit part.... And then only that they were rabbits. Other than that, they lost me on that one.
Then the teachers were up! This one I was basically completely lost on... There was some singing, some talking, people were laughing... The visual was pretty amusing, at least from what I could see.... I don't know what they were saying, but it was fun to watch!
And then... Finally the moment we weren't really waiting for but whatever..... The 6th graders! Of course, being class 6-4, we were last.... Actually, 6-3 was up first. They did a cool dance thing that I guess is popular in schools around here.... It was fun to watch, anyway. Then 6-1 and 6-2 did their songs.... I think it was 6-2 that had the AWESOME marimbas, but I don't know for sure.... And finally, we were up! I was admittedly nervous.... But I think we all did fine, and it was fun! The tambourine isn't terribly exciting, but I think I did alright.... It would have been better if I flipped it over so I wasn't hitting the side with the pins, but when I noticed it was too late.... There's no cool way to flip over a tambourine mid-song... Or quiet way, for that matter. It wasn't a problem.... One song one time through isn't that much.
Then we lined up like we've been practicing for the past several days, and sang a song. I surprised myself right before I started posting by starting to sing the song here.... Obviously I don't know all the words, but I do know enough to start on my own, I guess. Anyway, we sang our song.... Then we sang another song (Smile Again) with the rest of the school.... Then the principal talked for a little bit. Finally after that we were told to sit down.
I believe it was then that the 5th graders did their thing.... It was several things, actually. Stuff I couldn't completely follow.... But the end, oh the end! This was my favorite part of the whole thing, not because it was the end but because it was SO COOL!!!! All the lights were turned off, and the 5th graders had glowsticks..... Blue, pink, yellow (which for glowsticks is actually a kind of light green), and green. They waved them a little bit.... Probably singing a song, though I was a bit too focused on the visual to notice much.... I have some stupid fascination with glowsticks..... I love them. But then.... THEN!!!! This excites me to write about, even though it'll only take a sentence or two.... I'm dragging it out for suspenseful dramatical purposes (I don't think dramatical is a word).... They started making WORDS with the glowsticks!!!!!! Since I was in the back, I stood up to see better.... It was so cool! One color was "サヨナラ" (Sayonara in katakana.... Probably because katakana is more angular, and thus easier to make characters with glowsticks... And I may be spelling it wrong), another said "アリガトウ" (also in katakana, of course... It says Arigatou.), and the others (I'm not sure if there was one or two) I couldn't read.... It was all VERY cool though. Being coordinated enough to hold up glowsticks to make words..... Cool! They made the words for a little, then all lined up along the aisles.... Then they waved the glowsticks kind of as "borders" to the aisles as the 6th graders walked out.... Very cool! Very very cool! I wish I could have a picture of it.... It was awesome! We left the same way we came, but without 1st graders and between glowsticks..... Very cool. Who can tell I liked it? ;) The 5th graders are awesome.
OK... Time to calm down now... ;) Just writing about it got me all excited again... :p I'm so dumb. Is glowsticks two words? Probably, but it looks better to me as one... It sounds like one when I say it, so I'll let it look like one too. :p
After the very cool farewell party it was lunch time. We had jello (made me think of Kento.... He'll know why. ;))... And rice and stuff that I didn't fully understand. I don't even always understand the food here.... Crazy. :p
After lunch I went out to watch my class practice jump rope again... They take these competitions seriously. :p Then it was inside to clean.
After that was done, we went to the classroom to write. We wrote about the farewell party... I wrote a little bit, drew a picture (because we had to draw a picture), then had time, so wrote some more. I ended up using the space provided on the front as well as most of the back for my writing.... I wrote a lot. :p I kind of joked about how it was like my long over-due elementary school graduation, because Winterhaven didn't have one (as a K-8 school, there was no particular reason to). ;)
Oh yeah, and I also got my little picture frame thing.... I should take a picture of it (a picture of a picture!) to post on here.... It's cute. :)
Then I got to come home. Used the computer for a bit, had dinner.... Then the family upstairs got home. I refer to them as the family upstairs to maintain some privacy... ;) Obviously I know who they are, but in this blog they are "the family upstairs" because they live upstairs.
Anyway, they got home, and they had dinner down here, probably because my grandma gave it to them. Then Ryusuke (my oldest cousin... He's 18) came down, so he ate too... We ended up just sitting around, eating, talking, and watching TV... I ate some more.... Fruit and ice cream, though I probably shouldn't have.... Oh well. :p I'll live. It was fun for some reason.... I'm not entirely sure why.
I ended up watching some show, even after they left.... It was some game show type thing.... Japan has the strangest TV shows. It was some sort of blackjack type thing.... But human blackjack.... The people at the table pick a person (there's cards with the people's pictures on them on the table), then the person they pick has to go essentially act stupid. There's a whole selection of guys to choose from.... Then there are these women who put a ball in their mouth, then try to keep it there while watching the guy act stupid..... It was very strange, but a concept I caught onto quickly. It's hard to describe in text, though.... I think the idea is that the women aren't supposed to laugh, but of course some do... And when that happens of course the ball falls from their mouth. Then they count the balls, and that many points goes to the person at the table who picked the card.... And they keep picking people until a winner is decided (wither by getting a "blackjack", 21 points, or by everyone else exceeding 21).
It was pretty stupid, but kind of funny.... Mostly stupid. I watched it though, and ended up watching until 10:00, when it ended...... Then I had to get my bath. I meant for it to be short, but I don't think 30 minutes is short..... Oh well. Now it's almost midnight.... Did it really take an hour to type this? Sheesh!
Oh, and before I go.... For your listening pleasure, I found this online! No clue if it's legal or not, but it's online already.... I'm just linking to it. This is the song we preformed today! We didn't sing though.... Anyway, here you go!
Seishun Amigo
Where to start? Morning, of course... :p Get up, breakfast, leave for school. Not terribly exciting. I watched my class practice jump rope for a bit (there's another competition on Monday... I think I wrote about it in a previous post), then we went in. Then some 1st graders came in and gave us little picture frames with our class picture in it. I didn't get one for some unknown reason.... There was one for me, but I didn't get it at the time. Then we practiced singing with the rest of the 6th graders, then we went back to the classroom. They talked about stuff I couldn't follow at all...... Bear with me if I'm getting a little mixed up. I was tired this morning... I'm always tired on Fridays. Most people wont know the difference anyway... ;) In all honesty that part wasn't terribly interesting.... What came after, now THAT was cool!
I am talking, of course, about the farewell party! The 6th graders walked in with 1st graders, so the 1st graders came to our class first. We got paired up... I shared a first grader. :p Apparently there wasn't enough of them. ;) But that was no problem. We walked down to the gym, then went in. It was dark, and most of the school was already there.... In fact we were the last. Everyone was clapping... It was kind of weird. Of course it was for the 6th graders, and I was just there because.... But it was still fun. We walked under an arch thing, down the center, then around to our chairs. We got chairs because we're special. ;)
In all honesty I didn't follow quite a bit of the party too closely either... With the help of the program, though, I can try. :p
First up were the 3rd graders. They played Puff The Magic Dragon, and I sat in the back being amused.... Americans will probably understand this quite well.... Why I was sitting there laughing to myself. They did a good job though.... They also did some skits, and sang a song. Complete with pompoms.... That was interesting. :p Nanako was somewhere, but I'm not sure where....
After that were the first graders! They did Jyugemu (a whole skit/dance/song kind of thing), which was very cute. Some of my American readers (are there anymore? I don't even know, since no one COMMENTS *hint hint*) may know it as my bad spelling... Gigemu... The long name that I randomly say sometimes, though I only know the short version. ;) Yuutaro was up there, but because I was in the back and have bad vision (and I always forget to wear my glasses....) I couldn't really tell where.
Now let's see if I get this right.... I know from the program that the 4th graders were next, and I THINK they were the ones doing the Kappa thing.... But I may be mixing stuff up now. Either way, the 4th graders did their skit, and either way it was good, because they were all good!
After that were the 2nd graders, and if I'm remembering right (but this might be getting mixed up with the 4th graders.... I can't remember for sure) they did a skit/dance/song thing that I really didn't understand.... I only got the rabbit part.... And then only that they were rabbits. Other than that, they lost me on that one.
Then the teachers were up! This one I was basically completely lost on... There was some singing, some talking, people were laughing... The visual was pretty amusing, at least from what I could see.... I don't know what they were saying, but it was fun to watch!
And then... Finally the moment we weren't really waiting for but whatever..... The 6th graders! Of course, being class 6-4, we were last.... Actually, 6-3 was up first. They did a cool dance thing that I guess is popular in schools around here.... It was fun to watch, anyway. Then 6-1 and 6-2 did their songs.... I think it was 6-2 that had the AWESOME marimbas, but I don't know for sure.... And finally, we were up! I was admittedly nervous.... But I think we all did fine, and it was fun! The tambourine isn't terribly exciting, but I think I did alright.... It would have been better if I flipped it over so I wasn't hitting the side with the pins, but when I noticed it was too late.... There's no cool way to flip over a tambourine mid-song... Or quiet way, for that matter. It wasn't a problem.... One song one time through isn't that much.
Then we lined up like we've been practicing for the past several days, and sang a song. I surprised myself right before I started posting by starting to sing the song here.... Obviously I don't know all the words, but I do know enough to start on my own, I guess. Anyway, we sang our song.... Then we sang another song (Smile Again) with the rest of the school.... Then the principal talked for a little bit. Finally after that we were told to sit down.
I believe it was then that the 5th graders did their thing.... It was several things, actually. Stuff I couldn't completely follow.... But the end, oh the end! This was my favorite part of the whole thing, not because it was the end but because it was SO COOL!!!! All the lights were turned off, and the 5th graders had glowsticks..... Blue, pink, yellow (which for glowsticks is actually a kind of light green), and green. They waved them a little bit.... Probably singing a song, though I was a bit too focused on the visual to notice much.... I have some stupid fascination with glowsticks..... I love them. But then.... THEN!!!! This excites me to write about, even though it'll only take a sentence or two.... I'm dragging it out for suspenseful dramatical purposes (I don't think dramatical is a word).... They started making WORDS with the glowsticks!!!!!! Since I was in the back, I stood up to see better.... It was so cool! One color was "サヨナラ" (Sayonara in katakana.... Probably because katakana is more angular, and thus easier to make characters with glowsticks... And I may be spelling it wrong), another said "アリガトウ" (also in katakana, of course... It says Arigatou.), and the others (I'm not sure if there was one or two) I couldn't read.... It was all VERY cool though. Being coordinated enough to hold up glowsticks to make words..... Cool! They made the words for a little, then all lined up along the aisles.... Then they waved the glowsticks kind of as "borders" to the aisles as the 6th graders walked out.... Very cool! Very very cool! I wish I could have a picture of it.... It was awesome! We left the same way we came, but without 1st graders and between glowsticks..... Very cool. Who can tell I liked it? ;) The 5th graders are awesome.
OK... Time to calm down now... ;) Just writing about it got me all excited again... :p I'm so dumb. Is glowsticks two words? Probably, but it looks better to me as one... It sounds like one when I say it, so I'll let it look like one too. :p
After the very cool farewell party it was lunch time. We had jello (made me think of Kento.... He'll know why. ;))... And rice and stuff that I didn't fully understand. I don't even always understand the food here.... Crazy. :p
After lunch I went out to watch my class practice jump rope again... They take these competitions seriously. :p Then it was inside to clean.
After that was done, we went to the classroom to write. We wrote about the farewell party... I wrote a little bit, drew a picture (because we had to draw a picture), then had time, so wrote some more. I ended up using the space provided on the front as well as most of the back for my writing.... I wrote a lot. :p I kind of joked about how it was like my long over-due elementary school graduation, because Winterhaven didn't have one (as a K-8 school, there was no particular reason to). ;)
Oh yeah, and I also got my little picture frame thing.... I should take a picture of it (a picture of a picture!) to post on here.... It's cute. :)
Then I got to come home. Used the computer for a bit, had dinner.... Then the family upstairs got home. I refer to them as the family upstairs to maintain some privacy... ;) Obviously I know who they are, but in this blog they are "the family upstairs" because they live upstairs.
Anyway, they got home, and they had dinner down here, probably because my grandma gave it to them. Then Ryusuke (my oldest cousin... He's 18) came down, so he ate too... We ended up just sitting around, eating, talking, and watching TV... I ate some more.... Fruit and ice cream, though I probably shouldn't have.... Oh well. :p I'll live. It was fun for some reason.... I'm not entirely sure why.
I ended up watching some show, even after they left.... It was some game show type thing.... Japan has the strangest TV shows. It was some sort of blackjack type thing.... But human blackjack.... The people at the table pick a person (there's cards with the people's pictures on them on the table), then the person they pick has to go essentially act stupid. There's a whole selection of guys to choose from.... Then there are these women who put a ball in their mouth, then try to keep it there while watching the guy act stupid..... It was very strange, but a concept I caught onto quickly. It's hard to describe in text, though.... I think the idea is that the women aren't supposed to laugh, but of course some do... And when that happens of course the ball falls from their mouth. Then they count the balls, and that many points goes to the person at the table who picked the card.... And they keep picking people until a winner is decided (wither by getting a "blackjack", 21 points, or by everyone else exceeding 21).
It was pretty stupid, but kind of funny.... Mostly stupid. I watched it though, and ended up watching until 10:00, when it ended...... Then I had to get my bath. I meant for it to be short, but I don't think 30 minutes is short..... Oh well. Now it's almost midnight.... Did it really take an hour to type this? Sheesh!
Oh, and before I go.... For your listening pleasure, I found this online! No clue if it's legal or not, but it's online already.... I'm just linking to it. This is the song we preformed today! We didn't sing though.... Anyway, here you go!
Seishun Amigo
posted by Emi at 10:56 PM
1 Comments:
yay, the glowsticks sound fun! We didn't get glowsticks at our 6th grade continuation...mainly boring people talked, and they called all our names and gave us fake diplomas....
Oh, and the gameshow sounds hilarious!
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