Okinawan children play in the snow for the first time, react with great enjoyment

Okinawan children play in the snow for the first time, react with great enjoyment

Children from Chubu enjoying the snow for the first time. Kamuro Children’s Nature House in Mamurogawa, Yamagata.


January 17, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Takaya Kinra

Yamagata – In an exchange program between community organizations in Chubu, Okinawa and Mogami, Yamagata, 68 5th-graders from 9 communities in central Okinawa had a chance to play in the snow in Yamagata.

For most of the children, this was their first time experiencing snow, and they were able to enjoy skiing, snowball fights, snowman building, and sledding.

The morning was spent on the hill behind the Kamuro Children’s Nature House, where they were staying, and the children rolled down the snow hill as well as raced each other down the steep slope.

After that they moved over to the hotel Schönes Heim Kaneyama.

There, learned to ski along with 25 5th and 6th graders from the Kaneyama, Meian, and Ariya Elementary schools.

Ria Oshiro, 11, from Uruma City’s Gushikawa Elementary, said, “Climbing up the slope was hard, but I went down over and over again. Both the sledding and making snowmen were fun.”

(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)

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