Taiku sai and sayonara

cher whanau, well been awhile since our last post so have abit to talk about..well where to start.. well at the beginning of last month I had my Taiku sai or sports festival at school.. this was an awesome day with the students competing in various games, and dances.. this was my second sports festival and as last year the students went hard out especially in the team dances..some groups looked like hip hop videos and they were cool.. this was a primo day

well with the end of july came for the time for some of our whanau here in Nihon to say ka kite and head back to aotearoa and various places in the world.. we had the sayonara party here in omihachiman and our last chance to say good bye to peps in our ken so it was sad to see some people go , but it was a good night to be had and as usual we got hammered... the next day we caught up with jods and kimi and headed to Kobe to have a little good bye kai and sing some karaoke and get on the juice with our kobe whanau..damn what a day.. talk about hot..a typical hot humid day.. but soldiered on and caught up with timoti,chels ,and kahuroa.. it was great catching up with them and then later on with gav, linds and mel.. it was cool chilling , having a kai and singing some karaoke... but its sad to see timoti,chels , kahuroa go... congrats on your expecting pepi...JODY and KIMI well you fullas, we will really miss not having you fullas here. its been awesome being here in nihon and experiencing this place with you fullas..congrats on the engagement..cher cher cuzzies..