Saturday, September 17, 2005

La Japoneisa: Undoukai (The Sports Day)

I opened my eyes and listened to the sounds of an empty house and of the life already vibrating the outside autumn air. It was foggy out there; the morning felt fresh and buzzing though also carried with it the tired sleepiness of a cloudy day, a day best suitable for reading a book by the fire, drinking tea and occasionally dosing off.
Instead of which the two of us, Bo and I, were going to partake in a sports day. As good as.
We drove down to the Wada Shougakkou (the kanji for ‘wa’ is the same as is the one in Wado Ryu-was rather excited to find that out, even though, to be honest, the matter itself is not really exciting at all) where we spotted Eiji san actively participating in the course of all the action and also, somewhat naturally indeed, the new Iya JET, Canadian Nate.
Throughout the day I was trying to work out what was it that fuelled my utter fascination with Asian babies. All day long I had them in my sight and I kept pondering. I think it is the purity that still shines from their eyes that the Western children of today seem to lack; there seems to be no want or greed, no maliciousness, no vulgarity ruling the expressions of their faces. They all seemed so serious and diligent about what they were doing, the performance they were presenting, the games they were playing, there seems to be this air of general respectfulness to and consideration for others about them. And still there was so much laughter and liveliness around and everybody seemed to have had a genuinely great time throwing balls into baskets on poles, jumping in sand bags or munching their faces into a tray of flour in attempts to find a sweet.
And to Chiiori we returned victoriously with arms full of utilities of various sorts ranging from tissues through toilet paper, kitchen wrap to washing up detergent and disposable chopsticks and Mason.
A bunch of guests arrived late at night but I was so tired I could hardly force myself to say a polite hello and suddenly I was very grateful to Mason for being there and being the entertainer.

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