Rice Bowl

AJET (the peer-run social organization for our assistant language teacher network) put together a wonderful event for us JET teachers in Yamaguchi Ken!

There were about 12 events...3 of them simply being JANKEN (or Rock, Paper, Scissors) which is really funny if you live here. It seems like all decisions in Japan are based off of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Americans often do a "coin toss" but Japanese people do Janken, and at a rate that would alarm most rational people. hehe.

The other events were awesome. One event, for example was a relay for each team of 4 members. The first person had to use chopsticks to get a cup of marbles from one cup to the next. Next was perhaps, moving a deck of playing cards one by one, with only the chopsticks, and last one was transferring a bowl of uncooked rice into another bowl. Very silly and fun. There were also events that tested us on our knowledge of the Japanese language, and Japanese culture/pop culture. It was a great day!

My team:

Christina-chan, Eric-kun, me, Kris-chan.

WE WON! Yes. We won. :) I still have my awesome trophy, shaped as a bowl of rice.