Asahi Elementary School

Last week we got a chance to visit Asahi Elementary School. We each had a group and had to prepare games for our visit.

When we first walked in, they showed us to tables with our name tags.

Um, adorable much? (Also, don't mind the crazy hair--it was raining that day).

Some of the kids could see us already as we were waiting by the front entrance, and started waving to us through the window. After a couple minutes of this, someone decided they should at least be productive if they were going to stand there and emphatically wave their arms at us, so they were handed towels so they could "wash the windows".
(By the time I took the picture though they were getting a bit tired. They had been quite animated though).

Finally they lined us up and welcomed us into the gym, where all the kids were assembled.

Then they abducted their first victims...

To play a mass game of jan ken pon (rock, paper, scissors)!
(If you beat someone, they line up behind you and put their hands on your shoulders. Then you go against another pair, and if you beat them, they line up behind you too). (The kids in the front were screwing around just for our benefit--they were hilarious).

We also got to play tug-o-war.
After all the mass games in the gym, we broke off into small groups to go to individual classes and play some games like duck, duck, goose. Overall, pretty fun. :)