Undokai

Saturday at my school was undokai, or, in English, Sports Day.  It was really fun.  The first thing the 4^th graders did (that’s me!) was a type of relay.  The part that I did in the relay was where there were two sacks tied together.  Me and my partner ran as fast as we could, then got in the sacks and jumped.  It was exhausting.  We handed a ring to five people on two ski-like things with their feet attached on it.  They all walked a little bit and then handed the ring to three people with their ankles tied together.  They ran and handed the ring to the sack people again.  The second thing the 4^th graders did was the 80 meter run.  Everybody ran 80 meters.  Almost every grade did this.  The third thing the 4^th graders did was a huge game of tug-of-war.  There was a very long rope and two classes would get on each side (40 in each class).  We would pull as hard as we could.  It was very fun!  Our class would say, “yu sho” which means “we will win” in Japanese.  Tug-of-war was one of my favorite events.  Each team had it’s own two songs.  My team was red, or in Japanese, aka.  We were singing one of our songs over and over again through the whole undokai.  There was also an event for parents.  It was very cool.  There were four lines of parents.  There was one big ball for each line.  They would start from the front and pass the ball over their heads to the back.  It looked like it was rolling backwards.  The last person in line would bounce the ball back to the front.  It was very cool looking.  There were lots of other cool events for other grades.  Undokai was very tiring, but it was worth it because red won!!!  I was very happy when they announced that red won.  I hope next year is as fun as this year was.

By Maddie