Children On The Loose In The City!

An outing was scheduled for my second-year students in late April, and when the day came it was putrid weather.  Driving rain, wind, and cold cold cold.  So I figured that the outing, which involved moving all around Kanazawa, would be canceled.  Nope.

I was assigned to a couple checkpoints with other teachers while the students walked and took public transportation in groups of four.  They're given way more independence than 8th grade students would be given on a school trip in the States.

My pictures are not going to do justice to how miserable and cold it was.  I was wearing long underwear and was shivering most of the day.

On any other day, this would have been a nice outdoor lunch...

 ...but today the children were eating under bridges like homeless people.

 They had a better attitude than me about it.

 

Some kids went to an "ame" candy shop to learn how to put ame into jars.

 Ame is a crystalline, caramel-like candy. 

This spring in Kanazawa was the worst, weather-wise, of my life.  It was also one of the worst in recorded Kanazawa history, with the least amount of sunlight ever.  At least it can only get better next year!