Today I taught the fourth graders how to do the Hokey Pokey. And then they taught me a song called Niji (Rainbow), roughly equivalent to “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow.”
I always eat lunch with my students. They don’t believe in feeding their kids grade F meat, so the cafeteria lunch tends to be pretty good. Today I ate fish, rice, vegetables, and soup. Somewhere in there I also solved the Towers of Hanoi puzzle for the principal. I dunno why.
Hmm, sounds a lot better than what I normally eat for lunch. Perhaps these good eating habits are why Japan is not facing quite the obesity epidemic the US is?
Well, that’s part of it, but it has, I think, more to do with the way their cities/towns are laid out. You have to do more physical exercise to get anyplace, which isn’t really a problem until summer. That’s why we can’t really do that in many parts of the US. Can you imagine walking for an hour in 105-degree heat?