| Tuesday, December 13, 2005 |
| Orphans in Okayama |
 Annual AJET christmas visit to an orphanage in Okayama city! It was beautiful and sunny like last year, but they kept the little ones inside most of the day, which cut into my time of searching for babies to steal. (Ryanchoi, even you couldn't blame me for wanting to take the little guy in the yellow Pingu jacket...)
 Matt coordinates a sumo tournament on the playground. (My money is on the short one).
 Brian M: helping short kids dunk since 2005.
Chatting with cute tomboy Honami, who requested Yu-gi-oh cards as a gift, along with most of the middle school aged boys.
Boys play soccer and basketball as Danielle ominously approaches in the background.
Tamami-chan with her new Kitty-chan pillow...
Adam "Beckham" D pushes by Santa-san, uses fancy footwork to get by his 3-foot-tall defender.
It was a nice facility that felt more like a school than the barracks I'd have imagined from "Annie" and "Oliver Twist". Not all the children are orphans, but perhaps have parents that are unable to care from them for various reasons, or at least that's what I was able to gather after talking to teachers in my highly-deficient Japanese. The kids attend public schools in the area, so many of them knew the local city ALT at the party. I stressed constantly (a well-honed skill from Whitman days) for 3 nights beforehand about the organizational aspects of the visit, but it was a lot of fun and went flawlessly. More orphans to come at Christmas! |
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