Thursday, 05 June 2008
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School Festival Part 2.1
This is the day where the fun really began.
Woke up early morning to prepare for my club's event for the day which included setting my hair and getting my yukata on. I'm currently part of the Japanese Tea Ceremony club and had the privilege to be one of the 6 people who got to perform the ceremony in front of guests. Got to the school via car (thankfully too since it's quite hard to walk in geta (the special shoes you have to wear with your yukata) and it was raining) and got ourselves ready for the days events. Pictures of my buddies and I in our yukatas below. We're the only 2nd years in the club so when I leave, there will only be 2 girls at the top of the club since the 3rd years are all finishing with club activities after the school festival.
As soon as preperations were done, we headed down to the gym for some performances by the ouen group (think male cheerleaders without the pompoms). Never seen Japanese male "cheerleaders"? Here's a short clip of what they're like:
After that, we went back to the Tea Ceremony room to start the ceremony. I've been taking seperate lessons from outside of the club activities so my private teacher and host grandmother wanted to come watch. My previous host family ended up coming too so we had our picture taken together.
Left to Right: Private teacher's husband, host grandma, previous host family's father, private teacher, me, club teacher, previous host family's daughter (the previous host family's mother was taking pictures).
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