SUMO!

Nothing like a good sumo fight to get your mind off things, such as the introductory speech we need to give on thursday in front of our host companies in Japanese.
Being totally ignorant in the field of sumo, I was surprised that the average sumo fight lasts about ten minutes, of which ten seconds actually involve wrestling and the remaining 9.50 minutes is spent with scaring and staring, throwing salt on the floor and trying to get the opponent out of its concentration. But it's a great thing to see and when the fight really starts, the crowd goes wild and a few seconds later someone hits the floor and a new match begins between two other sumo wrestlers. Myself being a total sumo culture barbarian, I had no idea who the sumo wrestlers were, exept for when it was the yokozuna's turn (grand champion of last year). Not so hard though, since the whole audience started cheering at that time and the announcer said 'yokozuna', so I got the hint. Anyway it was great!