"You can forget your lunch but never your umbrella." ~A Fukui saying

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

文化祭:Culture Festival

Culture Festival: Two days of performances, displays, food and games. I helped judge a Karaoke contest on the first day and a cross-dressing competition on the second day. Cross-dressing seems to be a staple of culture festivals in high schools and universities in Japan. The boys really get into it, and, sadly, some of them are pretty darn good at being cute. A female teacher judging the competition commented after one pretty young lad's display that she liked his outfit because the boy looked like her.
The students at my school were grouped into four teams. Each team had to make a small mascot, a large mascot, a mural and a small vehicle. Yoshi is the green team's small mascot. The mural is Kachapin, a popular character in children's programming.
The yellow team did Spongebob.
The red team was Elmo.
The blue team actually went with a Halloween theme for their small mascot and painting. Their big mascot is Stitch, from the Lilo and Stitch film.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

where are the crossdressing competition photos?

i'm sure i'm not the only loyal reader who wonders why you don't put up the really good stuff.

or AM i?

Anonymous said...

I wonder as well...stop holding out on us, Geeves.

Also, how big were the teams, and why have they mastered cooperation at such a young age? Such teamwork leaves no room for improvement, unlike the creative Nazi style we preferred.