The Japanese word for broom is houki. This adds a level of confusion to doing the Hokey-pokey with a bunch of five year old students, since it comes out something like 'houki pokki'. Also, 'boring' to them is the game where you roll a ball at a bunch of pins.
Oh dear - broom pokey. Is the hokey pokey the dance where you put your left leg in, etc? I learned that at my granny's old time dancing lessons when I was about four, and we knew it as the Hokey Cokey. And the boring game! Hee.
That's the one. I didn't realize it had trans-Atlantic variations. And by me the only thing more boring than bowling is American football. Stand in two lines. Bend over. (Yes I know that part has possibilities, but they don't last.) Throw a ball backwards between your legs. Run foreward and crash into the guy in front of you trying to knock him over. Do it again. And again. And again.
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