So as early as 8.45 on a sat morning the festival is open to the public, the official opening is at 9am, the food goes on sale at 9.30am and the performances start at 10.30am ( Read more... )

Bunkasai = Cultural Festival ( Read more... )

So at 4 today after school we got to watch the 3rd years mainly put on a 2 hour program of bands, dance and comedy. The bands were quite impressive really. I got to watch 2nd year girls have an eating and coke drinking competition on stage, then we got to judge which was cuter of the 2nd year boys who were dressed up as girls and flashing us every ( Read more... )

I can't believe the summer has gone so fast :( it's back to school today, I slept through some of the long boring assembly this morning. not a good example to set for the students i know.. but sleeping is very acceptable in Japan, when you look around the room and notice that a lot of the teachers and students are dozing off as well. So upcoming is ( Read more... )

So I took fri off and met up with Lisa in Osaka before we jumped on the train for a couple of hours to make our way north to Wadayama for their annual summer festival! Wai! Wai! Rori was nice enough to let us crash at her place and picked us up from the train station and dressed us even :) I unfortunately didnt get to wear my new yukata (summer ( Read more... )

Well it took one year but i finally got around to playing tennis with my girl students, and they play as you would expect Japanese girls to play tennis bar a couple of exceptions. Due to my lack of physical fitness my cheeks went all red and the girls loved it (for some odd reason...) they seem to think that means that you have white skin, although ( Read more... )

Yay! we went to Korea! Rori and I went to Korea for all of 5 days, which definitely wasnt long enough. we both wanted to stay longer and drink and flirt with the hot Korea boys more :) I will put some pictures up later. Rori's friend Sarah that we stayed with is an absolute GEM!! one of the coolest chicks i have met in a long time. I feel so bad ( Read more... )

F*cking figures, the day I'm going to play tennis and it F*cking rains!!! its hasnt rain for over a week now, and it chooses today!! and tomorrow is nice and sunny again as well... grrr if i'm lucky it will clear up a little later! :P grrr ( Read more... )

well i had a nice weekend in the country side of Japan. Rori was nice enough to let me stay at her house over the weekend and CHance was nice enough to pick me up from the train station since Rori wasn't back from her teacher trip yet when i arrived. and unfortunately for young lorelei , while she had a great time on her teacher boozing trip she ( Read more... )

Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to the Belgium beer hall again and kept up with my Vice Principal, Beer for Beer, damn the beer there tastes GREAT! and food is fantastic too, what more do you want really? The get together was in honour of one of my close JTE (Japanese teacher of English) who is going away for 2 weeks to Thailand and ( Read more... )