Day 49 - Soccer Game

In school today Mizuki-Sensei brought all of his Kendo gear to show the class. He began to put some pieces on and showed the sword and how to hit with it. He let Bob put on the chest piece and Sensei started to hit him in the middle of class. After he put on all of the clothing, we all walked outside to see Kendo in motion.

First up was Annie, who had gone to Sensei's class twice I believe, and showed how to hit correctly. Everyone got a chance to hit Sensei, and boy was it interesting. It ranged from the girls who didn't want to swing very hard to Bob and Matt, who are at least a foot taller than Sensei looking very awkward trying to hit him on the head.

Later in the day I met up with Kenji, Per, and Masashi about a half an hour away from Shimo-Takaido to watch a Soccer game. It was a game of FC Tokyo vs. some other team I didn't bother to find out. The game lasted about two hours, and was pretty exciting to watch. Unfortunately the home town lost 1-2 but the fans cheered them on anyhow.

Throughout the game there were so many different chants, with hardly any breaks in between. It was fun to see and hear the crowd continuing on and on without rest. After the game had ended, we walked through the crowd of a few thousand people to make our way to the rather packed train station to get back home.