surprisingly random: Japanese ukulele freestyle singer...he just went around the different booths freestyling in Japanese...check out his geta! (those heels)
A cute little 'fashion show' put on by undergraduate students...however it looked more like a play with funny but intricate costumes...
a professional wrestling show put on by some of the students...
very popular...
and very funny...they had numerous crazy looking characters...
go Tomosan!)
of course, you always need the cute little school girl songs...by the way these girls are not in high-school, but in college...
This was a long, very long 'water' play set up by some of the students...however we didn't understand too much of it...but that didn't stop la team from having fun though!
Newsflash!: Les japonais arrivent a marcher sur l'eau!
Now this was the beginning of the famous fireshow...the most popular annual event that most of the students take part in. These folks in the picture, before doing anything, had to eat a piece of a pig and then light a torch to then bring it to a bigger bonfire...
We stood around the bonfire watching all the bad things that happened this past year burn away...a kind of purging, that involves chanting and ritual dancing and a lot of alcohol...i had to put away my camera for that.
That was it...the school festival was pretty much over...and everybody had to go back to their everyday student lives. I asked myself if this was unique to our school or if they do these kinds of things on a regular in japan...i am used to these sort of things happening in high-school...actually overseas, this would probably never fly!
And then to top it off, of course...a few days later, who could forget the big thank you nabe party we had with everyone who participated making delicious 'world' food...kampai!
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