Sumo Education Association

"Hi! My name is Jenn and I'm adopting you into my sumo education association!"

That's actually how I started a conversation this afternoon at the sumo tournament. You see, I like talking sumo and educating people. So I've been trying to find people at the sumo tournament who look like they probably need some information about sumo (i.e. other gaijin/foreigners).

It ended up going really well and Lance and I had some really good conversations with a bunch of interesting people. It started with a couple from Belgium and their 18 month old daughter (whom Locutus terrorized a bit with his brazen advances). Then we got to meet a couple of couples who were on a sumo trip up from the military base in Sasebo. The other day we really hit pay dirt when 100 JET teachers attended the tournament right next to where we were sitting. And then today there was a family, again from the military base from Sasebo. If we visit Japan again, we're supposed to look them up. They're into Judo quite a bit so the sumo was also very interesting to them.

The next time we come to Japan in order to see a sumo tournament we are going to further expand our sumo education association into a full-fledged tour guide operation. We'll advertise on various travel sites and attend sumo tournaments with other foreigners, giving them info about sumo while we watch, for a modest fee (this isn't a plan to make money, since we'd be there anyway, and we'd probably spend the money we get on snacks for the group.)