Shoe talk

White shoes are the school uniform. In Japan the kids walk to school in white sneakers then change them for inside shoes when they enter the school, which are just rubber soled canvas numbers with a bit of elastic over the top of your foot. And they also have yet another pair of these canvas school shoes for use inside the gym. I have school shoes myself because I don't own enough real shoes to have a few of them just sitting around at school all the time. It's quite annoying having to take your shoes off all the time. My classroom is carpeted so we have to take our shoes off to go in there too. The kids just wear their socks in E-time and mostly I do too because if I wear my school shoes and step on their feet, which is easy when they crowd around me like they do, they don't like it too much. Plus, they love looking at my toe socks with the bright colours. And it's kind of ridiculous to be changing your shoes all the time, especially when it's really not helping keep anything clean. Your socks get dirty from hopping around outside when you put on your school shoes, and then again when you take off your school shoes and wander along the hallway to get inside the English room. If you are going to walk on tatami mates then definitely take off your shoes beacuse the hard soles rip up the straw, but other than that, why bother?