Kindergarten

Today at Okuganaya I got to spend a period with the Kindergarten class in their separate building. One of the teachers there told me that the students were 3 and 4 years old, but I don’t really understand how that can be, seeing as how there are grades 1-12 and grade 12 students graduate at 18 years old. Regardless, they were super small (the tallest one was shorter than my waist). I decided rock, paper, scissors would probably be the best idea. I suppose it ended up being successful, but they definitely didn’t catch on quickly like the other classes did. Then the teachers added some train game to it, so basically there was a train of super short Japanese kids with their hands on each other’s shoulders, and then me. The train thing was actually super awkward, because I had to hold a kid’s shoulders with like two fingers, and this little girl behind me (several feet too short to reach my shoulders) had to hang onto my back pockets. The teachers found it pretty amusing, cause she had to reach up even to hang onto my pockets, but I thought it was weird, and it was hard to walk around like that. At the end I gave them all stickers (including the teachers), and they all seemed pretty happy. I thought the teachers were either joking about the stickers or would give them to the kids, but they just put them in their pockets like the rest of the kids. I guess when you see an opportunity for a Canada sticker you take it.