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Today in the break time after my first lesson, the conversation between myself and my coordinator was interrupted with incredibly loud music piped through the speakers in the rooms. Yumi (my coordinator told me with a smile on her lips to look out of the window and I spotted half of the school outside with a skipping rope in their hands being made to skip for fifteen minutes solid skipping to what sounded like “I`ve never seen anything like it” in Dr Dolittle. Indeed I hadn`t.

I have visited many schools in Osaka and this was the first time I saw anything like this. I would have thought that they would have got enough exercise playing Dodgeball or madly running around like kids do instead of being forced to participate in boot camp exercises but there you go. Some of them were in my next class and came back grinning from ear to ear. Which just confirms my suspicions. Japanese kids are crazy.