My south east asian pictionary set conterfiting sweat shop! I made 6 pictionary sets today (for the international friendship meeting tommorrow). This is a modified pictionary suitable for okinawan junoir highschool students I hasten to add.

We had a halloween party for the whole of my shogakko (elementry school). All the 130 kids in the gym together, what fun! We played some games, plainted hand ghosts and sang a halloween song I had been practicing with them. Halloween is the western festival they go for the most. They had halloween decoration all over the school and even had mountains of halloween candy. After the party in the gym the teachers went to our rooms (I have my own english room), dressed up and awaited the trick or treaters. Here are some of the kids.

More of the little devils.

We had a lodger hidding in one of the plants in the school corridor.

The sun rise on thursday morning.

Practicing getting up early. I got up and had a 1k swim this morning before school, whats wrong with me.

The World Press Freedom Index 2006, published by the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), showed that the US had dropped 12 places to 53rd place, below countries such as Ghana, Mali and Bolivia. Yikes, slightly perturbing I am sure you will agree.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19388

I quote from the websight, 'Meanwhile the steady erosion of press freedom in the United States, France and Japan is extremely alarming.'

Once again the northern european, especially Scandinavian, countries come out top! They also come out top on things like gender equality (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4786160.stm), low povery, happiness http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/hap_nat/findingreports/RankReport2006-1.htm and the like. And it is not as if their economies are doing badly, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are the three most competitive economies according to The Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007. In fact Finland topped the freedom of press and competitive economy list. Does anyone know if finnish is a hard language to learn?
Mmmmm just following links now, Finland was the first country to give women the vote and allow them to stand for parliment:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5036602.stm

Anyway, back to work.

Now first off why didn't anyone consult me? Or at least check the spelling with a dictionary? Anywho:

Here are some pics of my kids english preformance and display at the thingy we had. The thingy where students performed for parents.

This was actually something we had done in my english club but we re-used it. Hey recycling is good!

The performance, an english story with pictures. woot.