Despite the fact that we're midway through September, the weather here continues to be hot and muggy. Some days it seems like living here is nothing more than some kind of an endurance test in redundancy and discomfort, and that I'm really just some unassuming foreign schmuck on a low-budget reality TV show called "Let's Gaman Together".
My school and thousands of others across the country are preparing for their Sports Festivals. In fact, it wouldn't be considered very festive in many places on Earth, but given the daily drudgery that kids here have to endure, it seems like a nice tangent, I suppose. Some of the activities seem more like rudimentary military training than fun. For example, the boys have to strip down to their gym shorts, get on their hands and knees, and form pyramids in the dirt (no grass fields for schools here). It's meant to build camaraderie and endurance, and maybe it does, since people flock to watch them do it. Personally, it seems more like an ongoing form of hazing from one generation to the next. Hopefully, the day of the actual festival will be more enjoyable than training for it.
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