Dec 28, 2007

Best of...: The Xmas Medley

So here's a little mix of some of the many little Christmas and end of the year parties that i attended...in japan there is always an occasion to eat and drink...the rest is self-explanatory.


the first of the set takes place in an Okinawa style izakaya...this was for my lab's bonenkai (end of the year 'forget everything' party)


C'est Sho-san!


voila the peoples of my lab...






my tutor, Kacky-san and the infamous Gyus-san...


here is Nishiyama-sensei, who is the sensei of my lab...(qui sera peut-etre en France pour l'année prochaine!)


these delicious looking foods took place in our dorm's x-mas eve party...
















...fun with flour...






よっし! kampai!








Christmas is a funny event in japan. Yes it exists, but it doesn't really happen. They set everything up a few weeks in advance, building you up with decorations and a few parties or so, however christmas day is far from being special to Japanese folks here. The christmas spirit in japan is just another excuse for buying stuff, or just another day that everyone can enjoy. The 25th and new years seem to go down in the exact opposite way of what i have experienced elsewhere (usa/france); while we spend christmas celebrating the "birth of baby jesus" with family, they spend it partying or in couples...and then when the new year comes, they pray, while we, well, party like it's 1999- i mean 2008.

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