ぶんかさい

I helped put this up! Boy was it heavy!

This weekend was our school festival. I'm pretty sure it's one of the biggest things they do. They have it every year and they start getting ready for it months ahead of time. It's really amazing how much work is put into it. Well this year with the new influenza going around my school decided that they would only let parents come to the festival. It was really sad because this was the seniors last performance and their friends couldn't come to see them. Even still i think we all had a good time.

Anyways first was the opening. My class did a funny dance where all the girls and guys were in the school uniform skirts and we had pom poms. The song was by a famous Japanese girl band. Then lots of other classes performed their skits. Here in japan, or at least at my school, people really go out there when they're performing. They aren't dumb and shy because it's embarrassing. That's what makes it so funny!

After the opening we all went to do whatever our classes decided. Some classes had fun things set up in classrooms and the rest had shops with food or other things. My class decided to sell tropical juice and ....... cucumbers. .... i know it's a little strange. But they were amazingly delicious! Me and couple of other girls made this sign and we stood in front of our tent holding it and yelling きゅり　うってます！It was pretty funny!

Then my dance club performed on this stage that they made. The background was a picture of the little mermaid made out of bottle caps! It was AMAZING! It was tons of fun! The first day we didn't dance too well, and I'm sad because that's the day i got the video of :( ... oh well. The second day rocked! Everyone had tons of energy and all of the boys breaking were amazing! Oh and the second day the whole dance team wanted to do their hair crazy for the performance and my hair has a lot of volume so it was huge!

So after all that fun was over we all sat down as it started to get dark and had a little thing for the seniors. This festival was their last before they had to buckle up and study their butts off. So everyone was crying and it was just great! Then we watched a couple of videos and slide shows and at the very end there were fireworks! This really was the funnest day ever! It's really the best to have something you've been planning forever work out perfectly!