One last sleep left to Sports Day!

Once more into the playground...

I had the sneaky feeling today would be the big rehearsal before the big sports day...and seeing as I am not able to come tomorrow (got myself double-booked on the old sports day calendar thing!) thought I might apply myself to some photography instead. "Joining in" hat off, photojournalist's on.

It was nice to be ignored, which a zoom lens affords me, with only the occasional wave of recognition = a nice candid pic. (Or 700, I realised later, when it took 40 mins to download them all!)

For lunch I debut with I-sensei, who has a lovely manner with her class, always got a smile going on and is calmly on top of everything. Her off-sider K-sensei tries but comes over much more angry-mummy & insincere, and is the one person who has not said hello to me yet. Yes, I would say hello to her, but not so easy when eye contact impossible to make!

Just how mach can you do with play dough?

With even smaller tables & chairs, trying to digest with my knees up around my ears proved hard. Eating quickly did not pay off either, as I ended up being pulled in all directions by play dough ninjas with runny noses...several groinal area collisions left me grateful they take an enforced nap mid-afternoon. Time for my scrotum to rediscover its more normal position from just under my ears.

I-sensei did spot one of my buddies hitting a playmate over the head (had missed the previous 30-minutes of pandemonium as she had to write in everyone's diaries). Liked the way she dealt with that particular issue, addressing the class if certain behaviour was OK or not - so deviant pugilist would have a hard time arguing with the massed agreement of her 34 peers. Teacher not the bad guy nor the policeman. Harder to do in a smaller group, I think (and in a foreign language, though we did achieve that at my pre-school at Luna!).

After-lunch self-amusement

Wheels on the bus was a very popular diversion...