Student Festivals and Stalling Tactics.

Hello all, as I write this I am finishing preparations for WR and I's trip to Seoul.  While we'll have a smorgasbord of exciting pictures and stories for you in a week, I didn't want any of our three loyal readers to go into Japanese picture withdrawal in the meantime.  And so you have a mini post to tide you over.

Yesterday was the annual student run festival at WR's school.  It's an opportunity for each of the student groups to show off their interests and what they are working on, as well as provide a performance venue for both student and teacher talent.  Due to understandable privacy concerns pictures are scarce, but I managed to take a couple.

The English club WR works with chose to put up a Harry Potter themed cafe, apropos for Halloween, and they really did a fantastic job.  

While WR and the other teachers offered support when asked, the students do almost all the work.  Scheduling the events, creating all the promotional materials, and even making the food. Considering it is a massive 7 story structure with three performance areas and dozens of clubs it was no small undertaking.

A view of some of the food stalls in the 3rd floor courtyard.

I also got to see some areas of the school I hadn't before like the Kendo and Judo room.

Kendo padding looks pretty badass ne?

We have crates full of basketballs in our gyms, they have crates
of wooden swords . . . point goes to Japan.

Lastly for the second year in a row, WR got to team up with one of her fellow teachers to do a two person comedy routine.  It is a format called Manzai, and it is remeniscent of an old-style two man stand-up routine. The hard part?  It was entirely in Japanese.  

We had been drilling it for the past few weeks, and all the practice definitely paid off.    The gods of technology have all thwarted my attempts to upload the video, but needless to say WR did great and the crowd really ate it up.

We'll be back with stories from Korea next week! Thanks as always for reading, and don't forget to feed the fish.

DW

Food.

Some of these aren't from this week, but they are notable all the same :).

French rolls stuffed with tastiness

Rustic Italian boule with oregano

A tasty Kebab place in Tenjin

Study.

The emptiness in this section is equivilent to my complete lack of knowledge in the Korean language.

Explore.

A really strange building I passed while walking to Dazaifu.

Sunset in Tenjin

Fukuoka Tower