2007年6月21日木曜日

Cheering flag



Today I want to introduce one of my best memories in my high school days.
The picture above is the cheering flag. Can you guess what is this?


As the time was drawing near when we would have the last basketball tournament, the flag was prepared to let someone give us messages and make us motivated.
This flag has a lot of cheering messages from people who are in Mishima high school(My school) , mainly students and teachers. Whoever wants to leave message can write down on it.


In school in Japan, it may be an established custom to make such flags. The flag is brought to the the place where we play the game against an opponent, and it is exhibited just above the bench of ones' own team. Maybe it also plays an important role as a kind of lucky charm, because it shows that the team is supported or cheered by a lot of students, and it is full of desires that the team would win.

By the way, I want to introduce some messages from the picture above.
"Do your best"
"Do not stop running, keep running, and smiling!"
"I wanna see your dunk shot!!"
"Show us your 3-year compilation!"
"You have practiced so hard, and don't hasitate, just believe yourself!!"

There are also some interesting message.
"RYUTA, I love you..."
"I wanna watch baseball game."

I want to go back to my high school days...

4 件のコメント:

phillip さんのコメント...

great

Yuri Yoshida さんのコメント...

I have a year book from my high school at home actually. Come & have a look sometime. I miss my high school days as well.

yurixxx

hiro さんのコメント...

We also made this kind of flag. It was relly cool. I miss my high scool days as well. this kind of flag really takes me back.

Yurie さんのコメント...

I wrote the message on the flag to my classmates and went to see the game.She was a captain. So she has it like it is herself. She said "It is my treasure!".