Dragon Boat Race!
On Sunday 26th of this month, the annual Dragon boat race is going to be held at the Kasegawa reservoir near to Saga city. Every year, over 50 boats compete for a prize of 100,000yen with each boat consisting of 16 people (1 skipper, 1 ‘rudder’, and 14 people furiously paddling). It seems that each year there’s a good few teams of JETs competing and it’s hoped that this year will be no different. So I’m trying to help assemble two boats worth of people. If you’re interested, please mail me at: 
There will also be a ‘practice day’ on Saturday 18th 1-3pm, for everyone to fine tune their paddling technique. Although there is a competive element, the main point of the race is to get people together and have a good time. So I think it’ll be a good chance for not just JETs to get together, but also to meet some of Saga’s finest Japanese peeps.