Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Child labour

About 2 weeks ago, now I was at one of my favourite schools, and on that day I found out everyone was going around to the elementary school to help clean out the pool. I couldn't miss that - it is really difficult hanging out with the kids outside of the class because most of my schools are in the middle of nowhere and I only have a limited amount of time between teaching and buses. Anyway, for once I remembered to take my camera along to document that child labour is alive and well in Japan. And pretty effective, too!

In the beginning I was helpiong these guys sweep the sludge into the middle of the pool -mmmmmm.

These are ni-nensei (13 year olds), and my favourite students.

This is Ippei. He is 3rd grade (15 years old), and my favourite kid at that school.

Some of the elementary school kids. The one in front is Ken, he is the monkey boy at school. Really cute, though.

We had way too much fun for it to feel like work!

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