Tenku Fest, day two

My camera karma'd at me by running out of batteries during the day and cutting off some cool stuff I was doing with it. Stupid camera!

Still got some pics though, so be prepared for those.

I woke up later again today, but there was no opening ceremony to go to, and as a result of waking up late I missed the rainfall, so that's pretty good right there. Still have no means of purchasing foods for breakfast (or anything else for that matter) due to the ATMs being closed on weekends (Why Japan?!?! They are there for convenience! You suck at everything, ESPECIALLY that!)so I grabbed some stale bread and water from my room (If it's still able to be broken off the loaf, it's edible) and then ran out to the Tenku Fest area.

After wandering around for a bit and taking pictures of various things and talking to people I know that were being foolish (Free Hug t shirts. I'm under the impression that they really didn't work) I ran into Jennifer and Jen again and complained loudly enough that my stomach was eating itself from the inside out and I desire money so that I can CONSUME things.

So Jennifer lent me a thousand yen bill and owns my soul til I pay that off. Hurm. Well, I should get on that ASAP I suppose.

Anywho, we trolloped along for a bit (I don't actually know what that word means) and darted in and out of the concert areas, until something that I'm not sure happened separated Jennifer and I from the rest of the group. Oh well, not too bad. Then my camera ran out of battery power and I ran back to my room to recharge it for a bit and upload some pictures.

Also, before that (Throwing chronological order out the window here) we all went to the Alice Cafe. Essentially, imagine a whole bunch of people who are obsessed with Alice in Wonderland, dressing up in Alice in Wonderland costumes, playing the movie on repeat on a TV, decorating the place and cooking the food in relation to the film.

Oh hell, screw the imagining, here's some pictures of it:








Yeah, it was cute. And there were terrible misspellings everywhere because this is, after all, Japan. Also for some reason it took me something like 20 minutes to realize that the White Rabbit girl was wearing a wig. I don't know why I thought an Asian girl had naturally white hair. I.... I think I should lie down.

I saw a whole bunch of bands, and one of them did a cover of a Rip Slyme song (you don't have to know who that is, I still love you) and then some American guy came on stage and started rapping with them. That was really cool. Everything you hear about Japan makes you think that something like that would never happen. Only at APU I guess.

I came back for the fireworks and some other big band performance that had some Japanese cultural dance thing before it. I tried to get pictures of both of them but from the top of the bleachers in the dark it was....pretty difficult. I did manage to get some nice pictures of the fireworks though 花火（hanabi, for those interested).

Keep cheeckin the photobucket for more pictures that aren't up yet. I'm going to try to get some of the videos uploaded as well. Some of the bands were really good, buy my camera kept cutting out so I only have like 20 seconds of some of them, sorry. I'll try and splice something together and put it on youtube.

Now classes are tomorrow morning, and due to the festival none of my homework is done. You'd think the school would enforce teachers to plan around that.

I wish I could curse Japan for this, but every school does this.

Oh, before I forget, I have some bad news:

I told everyone I'd be coming home in July. Well, that might still hold true but...

I've been told from various people different end dates for the spring semester. Everything from July to SEPTEMBER. IF it's September that means I'd miss part of the first semester back home, and I'd be really upset about that. If it's July, the earliest date I've found suggests the 28th, so anyone who I had made plans with or whatnot...well...sorry, but the earliest I could possibly be home is the first week of August. Won't that be a blast.

(Fucking Japan)