Day #6 Yokohama & Game Day.

Early rise this morning with breakfast in another. Again the boys are thoroughly enjoying the different kinds of food display each meal. Jumped on the bus and headed around an hour and a half to the western suburbs of Tokyo to a school Kugayama High School.

This was one of those experiences the boys will never forget is they joined the billet in their individual classes and went through lessons including maths, English, PE which was probably the most exciting for the PE staff here where they did the Kendo ( which is a form of martial arts with a stick or sword).

From the videos on Flickr you’ll also be able to see your boys engaging in volleyball lessons which got very exciting with many of our boys being quite talented in this area. This excited the others from the school and ended up being quite enjoyable game.

Myself and Mr Holtsbaum decided to walk around some of the classrooms involved with our boys and noticed that one was doing what we thought was a science lesson. Mr Holtsbaum decided to take over the lesson and talk about neutrons and protons in English two boys that can only speak Japanese. This went over really well except one boy put his hand up... and said, ‘sir this is an geography class!!!’

Another story, in another maths lesson one of the our boys were sitting there going through some mathematics and put his hand up and ask the teacher what was that Japanese symbol on the board the teacher said that is the square root symbol. To boisterous laughter by the rest of the class, as it was a Yr8 math class, and our student was a Yr 11 Senior.

School supplied a lovely Bento box for lunch and then the boys got them selves ready and headed off to the rugby match

The game v Kugayama HS were ;

 Kugayama U14

1st half try K try K Try

2nd try try k try k try

Final Score - 43

TSS u14

1st NIL

2nd NIL

Final score - 0

Man of the Match- Lochie Murphy/ Charlie Coffey

The under 14‘s had a huge game stepping up in their defence and also in their attack but the main thing was there aggression at the ball and really played well. Even though they lost the contest it was a much greater improvement by all players.

TSS Open

1st - vD Schyff try, Arscott K,

2nd - Schmidt try & k, Vousty try, Schmidt  K, Burnett try, arscott K, try ? Schmidt K

Final score - 35

Kugayama

1st - try k

2nd - try

Final score - 12

Man of the Match- Jet Budgen (special mention Sam Morris/Massimo Du Littis for playing the entire game front row)

The game started with Syris Schmidt  as captain and and many players in our backline in new positions for the new game. Tss was first school to score with a great break away by Jack Breen to give Michael Van Der Schyff a try. Kugayama came back with a strong try but TSS continue to dominate the lineout thanks Jack Breen and Michael van der Schyff. A really strong effort like those Massimo and Sam Morris in the front row along with Harry Vousty playing the entire game and dominating scrums. Big improvement in this game with the offloading and also intensity at the breakdown also great to see all boys willing to play in different positions.

After the game we had a wonderful presentation from both schools exchanging gifts and pleasantries and then the boys excitingly went off the billets for the evening.

Tomorrow is a sightseeing day we are heading to a Japanese castle but that has a waterpark in it and the boys will have an enjoyable and fun time I’m sure. Overall a great day