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The Last Undokai

The undokai is described as a "sports festival", and that's exactly what it it. I had a hard time accepting this term at face value, because the concept was foreign to me, but that's exactly what it is. The whole community comes together to participate in the festivities, and play wacky Japanese-style group games. Undokai are an important social event that brings everyone together for one whole exhausting day.

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This year, I was on the victorious red team. The kids are gettin' their kung-fu poses on, Big Trouble In Little China style.

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My students put in hours practicing a really cool dance, but I think that the dude on the right (Chiyuki) blew it, judging from the looks on Tomoyuki's (center) and Masaoki's (right) faces.

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I really like my student's paintings this year. The red team's character wielding the wakizashi looks "Sassy" (Sprechen sie sassy?).

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Now that's sassy!

Comments (5)

Disco:

Hey, so it looks like no hash this weekend. Can you and Jamie put yours on in the next few weeks, sooner the better? I'm sick of dis shit. lata

Adam:

Lemme talk to Jamie about it. He's gone to Kobe this weekend, but I know we got to get on it.

Gee no HASH this weekend? Maybe you can boil down the BONGWATER and make SATIVA SLUSHIES or just rub it on your temples for an OSMOSIS HIGH.

Meanwhile, don't worry about those pesky Chinese hackers using the national Rat-on-criminal-gaijin program and RSS news aggregators to bust DRUGGIE JET BLOGGERS.

What's that? Oh, you're not JUNKIES? You were referring to a distance run followed by moderate alcohol consumption?

Naruhodo.

Scuba Steve:

What? They don't grow potatoes in Japan? Yes. I spelled it with a British "e", so don't tell me I spelled it wrong.

P.S. Chinese Liberation International Translucent Hackers beware. None of the above was code...or was it?

yomama:

Hmmm.Hash? Like that little pipe thing I found that actually belonged to your roommate at UCSB? Or Hash House Harriers? Or Corned Beef Hash? Hash Brown Potatoes? Curious, this.

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