9th Dec. Certification for an Old Man

「Certification for an Old Man」

１２月９日　親父検定だぞ

↑It snowed a little bit. Though it melted immediately I was happy.

 　雪が少し降りました。すぐに溶けましたが嬉しかったです。

 

↑When we have a break, I always play with my classroom kids. This is the most famous play “Oyaji Kentei”. Kentei means certification and Oyaji means…what can I say?? Oyaji is the word, which expresses an old man, and we usually use the word in a friendly manner, so there is warmth in the word “Oyaji”

　We have to overcome a lot of playground equipments during the break time, at the end of the play; we can improve our Oyaji levels. Now I’m in the level 11, so I’d like to be a great Oyaji (Level 3,2,1 or more advanced levels.) Actually there are a few great Oyaji kids in my class.

 Yet I’m not sure why they want to be an Oyaji…they are very young.

休み時間はいつも子ども達と遊んでいます。もっとも人気のある遊びは「親父検定」です。休み時間中にたくさんの遊具を乗り越えなくてはならず、遊びの終わりに親父レベルを更新できます。Torojiro先生は今、親父１１級です。3級・２級・１級やそれ以上のレベルを目指します。実際、クラスには数名のすごい親父児童がいます。

　しかしながら、彼らはとても若いのになぜ親父を目指すのかはよく分かりません・・・。

 

↑In the evening, we had a dinner party. Old classroom teachers, who were in my school before and were in charge of the same age students, came together. Although I was not the member of the group, I was invited to the party as a special guest. Maybe because, I came back from Tonga. We talked a lot and had a very good time.

  夜夕食会がありました。旧学年の先生達が集まりました。実はこのメンバーではありませんが、たぶんトンガから帰ってきたからでしょうかスペシャルゲストとして招待されました。たくさん話して、もり上がりました。