Anna`s UNDOU-KAI

A boy waves the flag for the red team (Anna`s Team), as a girl drums the taikodrum behind him as the runners race around the track at Field Day UNDOU-KAI

A few weeks ago Anna had her first Field Day (UNDOU-KAI) on Saturday. It is a custom for Elementary schools to hold these events on the weekends so that parents, grandparents and friends can watch the students participate in a variety of competitive games such as tug of war, relay races, dashes, hurdles, ball tossing, and many more. They even have special dances performed by entire grades.

Anna in her dash was put against the faster runners in her grade and she came out in 1st place. She also was chosen to run in the relay race but her team finished in 3rd. It was great to see her compete and do her best. That morning she woke up with great excitement and determination. It was like she had prepared, worked hard and knew she was going to win. And just for the record, I am not the type of parent to pump up and train my kids to be super over-achievers. This was all her! I just told her to go run and have fun today and "You`ll do great Anna!" As you look at the pictures you may wonder why Anna is wearing a mask. She lost her two front teeth and decided that she should wear it. Here are a few photo highlights from the day.

Anna is wearing the mask and has her hands out in victory after finishing first place in the dash.

The school grounds were filled with about 3,000 people and everybody had their cameras out and the weather was quite warm as well. It will certainly live on to be a great memory for us and Anna. She was beaming after she came home that day knowing how well she had done and enjoyed such a time with her classmates and friends.