Blunders and hokkaido kids

Some of the elementary kids from Minami Furano - Motobu s sister city - in Hokkaido came for a summer exchange programme. The Board of Education has been preparing for months for this, planning the home stays, welcome ceremony/party, making gifts and many more which I will never know, and all they needed was for their ALTs to mess it up.

The ceremony began when the MC announced to the audience, please clap your hands and welcome the children, and in walked the silly ALTs! Gushiken sensei was standing outside talking to dave and I at the door and he herded us in at that critical time and it was so embarrasing! I felt mortified the whole evening. Our faces are in the videos and all our principals and vice-principals were there... urgh..

Anyhow. the evening progress smooth enough after that. There were Ryukyu dances:


Dave did karate, and amused everyone... somehow he manages to make his seriousness comic...


Little boy on the sanshin singing, I wonder if he is one of my student... :

Little ballerinas, they were sooooo kawai:

These are the kids from hokkaido, doing their dance...

Me with the pretty pretty students of mine, two of the ballerinas: