大分の七夕

日本にもう少しいる事できてよかった。日本にクレベて僕の国はそんな祭りがない。伝統的な服や食べ物はほとんどない。とにかく、この３日間は本当に面白くてうれしかった。新しい体験ができていろんな国から来た友達とも時間を過ごせた。日本に来てからいろんな祭りに行った事があるけどこれは特に楽しい。甚平を着たり、花火を見ながら音楽を聞いたり、友達がプルグラムで踊ったり、色々な事を始めてみたりしてよかった。

Im glad that I've been able to spend the most of my one month summer break in Japan! Compared to this country, I could almost say that America doesn't really have festivals like this. We don't have any traditional clothing, dancing or specialty foods im sad to admit. But anyway, these last 3 days have been really nice. Oita's Tanabata festival is the biggest one in the entire prefecture each year. Theres alot of new experiences I've also had just in this short summer alone. Ive gotten the chance to spend some time with friends from all over the world to. Since being here, Ive been to festivals before but this was especially fun. Wearing Jinbei, going to see fireworks Japanese style (with music), seeing some friends dancing around in traditional clothing, and just being able to see alot of things for the first time, im really glad.

I took way too many pictures, but here are some highlights from Day 1:

There were several groups of people, schools, companies, organizations.. who were doing some sort of traditional dance, but some of these groups had some sort of really interesting float they were carrying around.

Day 2:

大分大学の組合

These streets were meant to accommodate somewhere around 470,000 people. This here is the group from Oita University.

Im not entirely sure what these guys were up to but it was entertaining. They would carry this thing a few meters, then spin it around like crazy people.. pour sake or something over the top and then continue singing and doing their routine for a while.

None of us want to leave Oita yet!!! We worked so long and hard to get here and the year flew by just like that.

Hopefully well see each-other again. I wouldn't trade the experiences ive had with these people all year for anything.

Day 3:

Hanabi by the Oita River

Whats that in my hand? Not diet coke... its a freakin beer! Were allowed to do that in Japan.. people here are that much more responsible... maybe. ^_^

Boom!!

Woohoo! I wore a Jinbei while the girls work Yukata. Its like a bathrobe, but you can walk around in public in it at your own leisure.

Enjoying the remaining years of our youth at Mc'Donalds... fun!

Comedy 喜劇

Tragedy　惨劇