Tenku Fest, day one

First of all, I'd like to point out that there is no reason that this post should be late. The images have been uploaded since like 8:30, and I've just been playing video games for the past couple of hours.

Just wanted you all to know that. Now on to the blog.

I was woken up by an announcement at like, 8:30 saying "HEY ALL! TENKU FEST TODAY STARTS AT 10:30! BE THERE!" But I mean come on, my alarms were set for 10, so I'm not waking up that early.

Turns out I forgot to set my alarms so I didn't wake up until about 12:30. Ah....

Well, quick shower and grab some money out of my desk drawer, and me and Fanxing went down to the Tenku Fest.

Turns out it's mostly just music and food. And dances. And there was kickboxing.

That's...that's about it. Still fun though, and I managed to spend 40 dollars there. I really have no idea where it went to. I can pass 10 dollars off to bus tickets to Beppu that I bought while I was out. Then there was a flea market where I bought some shirts, and some calligraphy prints.

Why don't you chill out man? It's a cool shirt.

Don't worry, that shirt was only a dollar.

Also ran into some other friends there, Jennifer and Jen (I know, complicated, right?). I'm apparently even easier to pussywhip in Japan, considering I basically followed Jennifer around to places, carried her shit, and bought her crap. Gyah. I don't know why I did it. I'm such a tool.

She told me I should go to this costume party in Beppu tonight, but considering the ATM was closed so I couldn't get more money, I had no means of buying a costume or anything to drink at the bar. So I kinda just hung out on campus. Hurraaaaay.

Also, weird note about the Tenku fest: In Japanese documentaries you always see people dancing in the circles, right? Like, huge groups of people. Well, there were only 8 people dancing in the circle here.




Yeaah.... oh well. I'll go somewhere else for cultural edutainment.

All my pictures on photobucket are GIANT SIZED. Sorry about that. I'll go through and resize them all sometime before tomorrow night.

In the meantime, there are a bunch more pictures from the Tenku fest there. There's stuff from the kickboxing matches, this little girl who was talking to us that everyone insisted was adorable and who got sad and kept saying "bye bye" to us whenever we started walking away, and people in costumes. Missed the Totoro guy, but I got this:



Say say say.