Undokai

 Last weekend, m's schools' undokai athletic meet was cancelled due to the typhoon passing through, so it was rescheduled for Tuesday. Thanks to my present unemployed state, I was able to make it anyway. Compared to last years event, there were much fewer parents attending, so it was not quite such a competition for good seats around the school ground. m appeared in several events: the class dance (above) which had something to do with eating rice and the words "rock'n'roll." I never figured it out because she refused to practice in front of us because it would ruin the surprise.

 She didn't get picked for the special relay event which mixes kids from all the grades this year. But she did well in the 40 meter dash, and came in second in her heat (above) against four boys.

And her red team came in first in this event, which I don't know the name of, but it involves having relays of four kids run a slalom course while hanging on to this pole.

The school is split between a red team and a blue team and unfortunately, the blue team won the games 412 to 395, which left m in a disappointed funk for about 30 minutes.

I didn't get a picture of it because I had only brought the telephoto lens, but there was the oddest sky: a circular rainbow surrounded the sun, and then there was just a straight band of rainbow (rainbar?) across the eastern sky. The wind was strong all day, kicking up the dust from the field, but the sun was out strong and we got a bit sunburned.