Attention:
The following contains events that happened a decent amount of time ago. Viewer discretion is advised.
So a while back my school had their yearly Undokai. For those not familiar while random Japanese school events, an Undokai is a sports festival. It is here that the children display their athletic prowess and their spirit of sportsmanship. At my school, every grade from kindergarten to sixth is involved in sporting events consisting of relays to tug of war matches (of which yours truly was on the winning team).
My favorite game to watch involved a group of four kids hoisting another kid onto their shoulders. Their were two teams consisting of about six of these groups. At the sound of the staring gun, the teams would run at each other yelling. The person on the shoulders would then try and take the hat off of the other teams shoulder child. When asking one of my teachers about this game, they said it dates back to samurai warfare where two samurai would ride horses at one another and try and lop of the other's head. Fortunately, no heads were lost during our event.
All in all, it was a lot of fun and I even got to learn a new Japanese word... Hiyake (日焼け). It means Sunburn.
