Welcome to my blog! Here I will post two articles every week about life in the United States. I will also post other articles during each month about English language culture. I hope you enjoy this!
This movie is the story of Jack Skellington, the patron spirit of Halloween. He becomes tired of doing the same things every year and wanders into a forest. In the forest he accidentally discovers Christmas Town. Jack really likes Christmas Town and decides to take over.
When I was an elementary school student, we would often play dodgeball at daycare or in P.E. class. I really liked playing dodgeball. So I was excited when I was invited to watch a dodgeball game at a Japanese junior high school when I first came here two years ago. But I didn't understand the rules! Japanese dodgeball and American dodgeball are very different. I still don't understand Japanese dodgeball very well.
In the United States we also played dodgeball on a basketball court. We also have two teams, but the number of members doesn't matter. There can be only a few, or over 50 members on a team. In Japan, there is only one ball in a dodgeball game, but in the U.S. there are many, many balls.
At the beginning of the game the two teams are lined up on opposite walls. The balls are lined up on the line dividing the teams in the middle. When the teacher says, "go!" the players run to the middle to get the balls first. The team members try to hit the other team's members with the balls so that they will be out. The team with the most members at the end of the game wins.
You are out if:
- a ball hits you.
- you throw a ball and someone on the other team catches it.
- you try to catch a ball, but it bounces off of your hands.
アウトになる時：
- ボールがあなたに当たった時
- あなたがボールを投げる時反対のチームの人がキャッチした時
- あなたがボールをキャッチしてみたけどできなかった時
You get someone out if:
- you hit someone on the other team with a ball.
- you catch a ball thrown by the opposite team.
だれかをアウトにする時：
- あなたがボールで反対のチームの人を当てた時
- あなたが反対のチームが投げたボールをキャッチできた時
You are NOT out if:
- the ball hits you in the head.
- a ball hits you, but the person who threw it stepped over the middle line.
- the ball bounces or hits someone else before it hits you.
ケド！アウトにならない時：
- ボールがあなたの頭か顔に当たった時
- ボールがあなたに当たったけどその前にボールが床か他の人に当たった時
- ボールがあなたに当たる前に床か違う人に当たった時
If you are out, you sit to the side of your team's area to watch and cheer. If someone on your team throws a ball into a basketball hoop in the other team's area, then everyone who is out on that team can play again.
