Last Day of School and of Aikido ~ July 19

This student on the bus looked like I felt after the crazy enkai the night before.

My last day of school was at Yasuoka Chugakko. There were no classes, just large assemblies for each grade. I played a large group game then gave a speech for all 120 1nensei students, and then gave a brief farewell speech to the 3nensei students (who were probably my favourite classes out of all my schools, so it was nice to see them last).

All the 3nensei

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Last Aikido class

They made me fight everyone! In groups of 4, and then all at once. I was exhausted afterwards!

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with Miwa-sensei in my lovely new hakama which I received as a leaving gift

This is Ku, who I taught at Yasuoka-chu. He thinks he's too cool to have his photo taken with me.