Toryo Camp - The Last Day!

On the last day of camp we always have a skit contest. This year we had less ALT’s and so the groups were bigger. I had nine girls in my group and they had to come up with an idea, write a script and perform it.

On the first night no one was willing to tell me their ideas in English so I gave them 15 minutes “Japanese time” to get their ideas together. It was a good plan and as soon as I called them all back, they had decided to perform “Cinderella”.

We then split into two groups and one half wrote the script in Japanese, while the others translated it. We were about half-way through when we heard another group was also doing Cinderella. We knew we had to make ours different and so we came up with the idea of getting the prince to fall in love with Cinderella’s smelly feet. Instead of finding the girl whose foot fit the shoe, he would go around smelling people’s feet until he found the one!

I was so proud of my group; they worked really hard, wrote a great script and practiced every day. My personal favourite part of the script was the magic fairy who leapt on stage singing (to the tune of Avril Lavinge’s “Girlfriend”)

“Hey! Hey! You! You! Why are you crying?

No way! No way! Let’s go to the party!”

Their hard work paid off as we won first place in the contest!! They were shocked but obviously very happy.

Before long the speeches were over, bags were waiting to be loaded onto the coach and camp was finished for another year. There was just time for lunch and 1001 photo opportunities. I hope to see you next year Toryo!