As I mentioned in an earlier post, the students' afternoons are spent at club. Clubs are like elective classes which students are required to attend. But it is more like a club than a class. Students seemed to really enjoy this part of the day. Some clubs include traditional Japanese arts such as Tea ceremony, origami, and the martial arts. Other clubs include art and music. But the most popular clubs are sports: volleyball, soccer, softball and baseball, basketball and table tennis. I've posted a few photos of some of the different martial arts classes, but I can only publish photographs that obscure the identity of students because of strict Japanese law.
P.S. In the traditional Japanese archery class, you don't actually get to shoot an arrow until the second year. Also, the bamboo "sword" art is called Kendo (and some of the athletes hidden beneath the masks are girls).
5 comments:
All I've got to say is that I got jipped in terms of elcetive classes!
Those look like some pretty empowered women!
Hello Mr. Lahr,
WOW! Awesome! That sword fighting club looks awesome! I wish we got to do those kind of stuff in the United States. SWORD FIGHTING would be incredibly popular here.
Your EPIC Student,
Akash Salam
Ultimate Math Matician
Hey Mr. Lahr,
I wish Paulding let us fence or do archery! That would be so awesome! It's cool how women do sword fighting and archery too-not just guys.
-Shadow
For people interested in kendo, here is a list of kendo clubs in California: http://www.auskf.org/dojo/ca.htm
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