The Annual Forestopia Sports Festival - More Photos

The Forestopia Festival is also simply about having fun. Here, two seniors on the red team can be seen enjoying their final festival.










And here we have two sophomores from the white team showing off their enthusiasm.














The red team leader is seen here at the top of a "pyramid," trying to fire up his troops.








Naturally, the white team leader also got his chance to show off his squad's cheering/dancing skills. (The two team leaders are always members of the junior class and always seem to be males, for some reason, whereas the sub-leaders of both teams always seems to be females.)











There's also always a couple of "real" cheerleading routines performed by the girls.














All the cheerleading wouldn't be complete without some taiko. (Note how the white team this year was basically the blue team.)











It's an unwritten tradition for the kids who graduated in the spring to come to the festival. Showing up also gives them a chance to show off their new duds and haircuts. Some of the kids get pretty wild after they graduate, probably since they are happy to no longer have to abide by the uniform regulations which completely do away with individual expressionism. This is one of my buddies, who is now studying engineering in Hokkaido.











Here's another look at some of the returning seniors and their new looks. (This photo is from 2009.)











And finally, the two team captains once again, this time with the rewards for all their hard work.