FUKUMOTO... um, no? GOOOORUKIPAAAAAAAAAA~!
Oh man, if I don't make a post now, I never will!
Yesterday was my first time at a real FIFA football game! 8D New Zealand vs. Japan I was there and it was so cool! If your flag wasn't broken by the end of the game, you weren't cheering hard enough!
Now, due to the lack of posts during the past few weeks, you probably wouldn't know that in search of something to do over the summer, I remembered Shimba-sensei from my old uni in Bochum mentioning last year (!) she was going to help the Japanese community during the FIFA Women's World Cup. So I asked a good friend of mine who is still at the uni if it was actually happening.
So I ended up becoming "文化長" in charge of the cultural programm for kids on the day of the Japan vs Newzealand game. When I say in charge it meant telling the city of Bochum what we had in mind, what we would need to procure for the activities... so in a way I think it did have something to do with my event management course.
The day's name was "FuJuTa", short for "Football Youth Day", where a German elementray school and a Japanese elementary school in Duesseldorf each had 8 teams competing against each other in a mini FIFA World Cup. Each team represented a country and eight volunteers from the university were in charge of making sure the children got to their games and that the Japanese children (who spoke no German) had someone to ask if they wanted to communicate with the German children (cultural exchange was object of the day).
While the matches were on the way, we on the cultural programm had Origami, face painting, a game involving chopsticks and calligraphy on offer. We were told that around 1300 children were expected by two o'clock (some older pupils were going to show up, too), so Kana & I who were painting faces thought that our white face paint would never be enough for all those children! But it turned out that 14 year-old boys weren't too keen on having their faces painted, even after being assured that they were not going to look like princesses when we were finished with them.
I don't think many realised we were there to paint them for the game we were going to see together after their mini WC was over. For Japan. Not New Zealand. Luckily the weather was so hot that the paint melted right off the faces of those who did have a different flag on their forehead or cheeks. I like the Japanese flag. It doesn't have stars in it or a tiny Union Jack in the corner.... And you're going to like your Stars and Stripes, correct amount of them or not.
The weather was scorching! I felt sorry for the children who had to sit on the pitch for the award ceremony while important people held speeches about the importance of sports in cultural exchange and such. They knew it was going to be hot today, they could have arranged some umbrellas for the awards. I received a sign saying 中3-A, which was the class I led to the stadium.
That was quite fun, I knew they were speaking proper Japanese for me and as always, 14 year old school boys.... "何才ですか。" "22才です" "ワァァァ大人だ!!"
Well... if you think so ^^x* They were just as tall as I am, though. Seriously, the stigma that Asian people are short has to die.
Like I said, the game was my first ever FIFA game. I've been to a baseball game in Fukuoka, but I think I understand football a lot more than baseball. Especially because I've been watching Inazuma Eleven in preparation for this day Classically, however, I do not know the Offside Rule of No0b Doom. =P
Nevertheless, I was able to enjoy the game very much. Children not far from our right tried to create La Ola waves all the time, but they died quickly and buying coke during the match proved a good idea, too.
We had a list of the player's names and so we tried shouting them out. It's quite different than on TV, were the commentator conveniently tells you who is in possession of the ball right now. So we learnt the name of the goalkeeper: Fukumoto.
But she didn't have the number 1, so we weren't sure if she really was Fukumoto... so we resorted back to the usual "がんばれ!" "走れ!" "行け日本!" "もう一点!" (...to the melody of 'Rolling Girl') "前々ますぐすすめ!" (....AKB48...) ひっさつわざ!!! (Inazuma Eleven).
Miyama & Ando I think were really cool~ It was great to watch in any case. The weather was really hot, so I don't even want to think what both teams must have felt like on the pitch.
P.S.: Newspaper tells me that Ayumi KAIHORI was goalie.
After the match I had to find my class again with the help of my sign. The older classes now had a cultrual programm together, too, but now we had the chance to relax a little and try Origami out ourselves. Some guy tried to make me look ignorant when I commented on my friend's name after she had it written in Kanji. I said (to her) that it looked Chinese, meaning I was surprised because I'm sure two of them would also be used if her name were to be written in Hanzi, while mine looked completely different. But I wasn't going to start an argument and explain, so we made ou way to the main hall, where the Japanese school performed this dance (Soran Bushi) I know!!! I wanted to join in so badly, but with my interpretation of an Usagi-Tsukimi-Nihon-face paint I already looked like a dork. XD~ The entire day really, consisted of me trying to look like a "normal ドイツ人 with an affinity towards Japan" and not "OMKami if they have a disco and play a song I know I'd be so out there like hfkdkfnk.jdsla;a".
(Un)fortunately, there was no disco and we were free to go at seven o'clock in the evening. OK, I did have a Nico Nico CD on in the car which I had burned a few days earlier, with plenty of Yoppei, just to make my music even more unbearable to others, but the car is my realm when I'm driving. My mother, incidently, helped out on the day, too and we rewarded ourselves with a large ice cream in our home town when we got there.
As if for our entertainment, a truck chipped off a corner of a house while we were eating our ice cream and we watched more and more people get involved in phoning the police etc... Wow. We were really tired ^^x*
Ha, I neglect my LJ and then bombard it with a novel. Now... I can write my own recommendation again?! I asked the city of Bochum if they could send me something I can show Huddersfield uni and put in my CV and they ask me to write it myself and then they'll put a stamp on it.
...and then I kicked the ball in myself with a Fire Tornad...-*is hit in face with a football*
콜레
Related Links:
http://otasuketai111.wordpress.com/
http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/bochum/Japan-gewinnt-id4813879.html
http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2011/06/27/lokalzeit-ruhr-fifa-frauen-wm.xml
ひんば先生の写真
Yesterday was my first time at a real FIFA football game! 8D New Zealand vs. Japan I was there and it was so cool! If your flag wasn't broken by the end of the game, you weren't cheering hard enough!
Now, due to the lack of posts during the past few weeks, you probably wouldn't know that in search of something to do over the summer, I remembered Shimba-sensei from my old uni in Bochum mentioning last year (!) she was going to help the Japanese community during the FIFA Women's World Cup. So I asked a good friend of mine who is still at the uni if it was actually happening.
So I ended up becoming "文化長" in charge of the cultural programm for kids on the day of the Japan vs Newzealand game. When I say in charge it meant telling the city of Bochum what we had in mind, what we would need to procure for the activities... so in a way I think it did have something to do with my event management course.
The day's name was "FuJuTa", short for "Football Youth Day", where a German elementray school and a Japanese elementary school in Duesseldorf each had 8 teams competing against each other in a mini FIFA World Cup. Each team represented a country and eight volunteers from the university were in charge of making sure the children got to their games and that the Japanese children (who spoke no German) had someone to ask if they wanted to communicate with the German children (cultural exchange was object of the day).
While the matches were on the way, we on the cultural programm had Origami, face painting, a game involving chopsticks and calligraphy on offer. We were told that around 1300 children were expected by two o'clock (some older pupils were going to show up, too), so Kana & I who were painting faces thought that our white face paint would never be enough for all those children! But it turned out that 14 year-old boys weren't too keen on having their faces painted, even after being assured that they were not going to look like princesses when we were finished with them.
I don't think many realised we were there to paint them for the game we were going to see together after their mini WC was over. For Japan. Not New Zealand. Luckily the weather was so hot that the paint melted right off the faces of those who did have a different flag on their forehead or cheeks. I like the Japanese flag. It doesn't have stars in it or a tiny Union Jack in the corner.... And you're going to like your Stars and Stripes, correct amount of them or not.
The weather was scorching! I felt sorry for the children who had to sit on the pitch for the award ceremony while important people held speeches about the importance of sports in cultural exchange and such. They knew it was going to be hot today, they could have arranged some umbrellas for the awards. I received a sign saying 中3-A, which was the class I led to the stadium.
That was quite fun, I knew they were speaking proper Japanese for me and as always, 14 year old school boys.... "何才ですか。" "22才です" "ワァァァ大人だ!!"
Well... if you think so ^^x* They were just as tall as I am, though. Seriously, the stigma that Asian people are short has to die.
Like I said, the game was my first ever FIFA game. I've been to a baseball game in Fukuoka, but I think I understand football a lot more than baseball. Especially because I've been watching Inazuma Eleven in preparation for this day Classically, however, I do not know the Offside Rule of No0b Doom. =P
Nevertheless, I was able to enjoy the game very much. Children not far from our right tried to create La Ola waves all the time, but they died quickly and buying coke during the match proved a good idea, too.
We had a list of the player's names and so we tried shouting them out. It's quite different than on TV, were the commentator conveniently tells you who is in possession of the ball right now. So we learnt the name of the goalkeeper: Fukumoto.
But she didn't have the number 1, so we weren't sure if she really was Fukumoto... so we resorted back to the usual "がんばれ!" "走れ!" "行け日本!" "もう一点!" (...to the melody of 'Rolling Girl') "前々ますぐすすめ!" (....AKB48...) ひっさつわざ!!! (Inazuma Eleven).
Miyama & Ando I think were really cool~ It was great to watch in any case. The weather was really hot, so I don't even want to think what both teams must have felt like on the pitch.
P.S.: Newspaper tells me that Ayumi KAIHORI was goalie.
After the match I had to find my class again with the help of my sign. The older classes now had a cultrual programm together, too, but now we had the chance to relax a little and try Origami out ourselves. Some guy tried to make me look ignorant when I commented on my friend's name after she had it written in Kanji. I said (to her) that it looked Chinese, meaning I was surprised because I'm sure two of them would also be used if her name were to be written in Hanzi, while mine looked completely different. But I wasn't going to start an argument and explain, so we made ou way to the main hall, where the Japanese school performed this dance (Soran Bushi) I know!!! I wanted to join in so badly, but with my interpretation of an Usagi-Tsukimi-Nihon-face paint I already looked like a dork. XD~ The entire day really, consisted of me trying to look like a "normal ドイツ人 with an affinity towards Japan" and not "OMKami if they have a disco and play a song I know I'd be so out there like hfkdkfnk.jdsla;a".
(Un)fortunately, there was no disco and we were free to go at seven o'clock in the evening. OK, I did have a Nico Nico CD on in the car which I had burned a few days earlier, with plenty of Yoppei, just to make my music even more unbearable to others, but the car is my realm when I'm driving. My mother, incidently, helped out on the day, too and we rewarded ourselves with a large ice cream in our home town when we got there.
As if for our entertainment, a truck chipped off a corner of a house while we were eating our ice cream and we watched more and more people get involved in phoning the police etc... Wow. We were really tired ^^x*
Ha, I neglect my LJ and then bombard it with a novel. Now... I can write my own recommendation again?! I asked the city of Bochum if they could send me something I can show Huddersfield uni and put in my CV and they ask me to write it myself and then they'll put a stamp on it.
...and then I kicked the ball in myself with a Fire Tornad...-*is hit in face with a football*
콜레
Related Links:
http://otasuketai111.wordpress.com/
http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/bochum/Japan-gewinnt-id4813879.html
http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2011/06/27/lokalzeit-ruhr-fifa-frauen-wm.xml
ひんば先生の写真