Long Weekend

Saturday. Sun. Hot. Sweat. People. It was the Kumamoto-Ken Sports Festival opening ceremony, being held in Taragi, the next town to Mizukami. Our dance team + the children's dance team performed with another 14 teams altogether. It was a huge event. We waited for 40mins in the sweltering sun, it was so hot. Beads of sweat were running down like a rapid river. After waiting in the sun, it was finally time for us to do our thing. We were all dancing to the same song "Kumakoi Rokuchoshi" This song is the "Kuma" area's ANTHEM. Everyone dance to this song. It sings about the infamous SHOCHU (rice wine). We danced and we shouted, we had so much fun. We were ecstatic!

On Sunday, I went to a "Rock concert" I use those two words loosely. It was held at the Craft Park, a place rarely visited by people. But the ground was big enough for bands to perform and people to dance. It was fun. Cheap drinks, good eats and fabulous company. This is when all the "not so Japanese Japanse" turn up and have a good time. The performances were really good. There was a group of Belly Dancers who came up from Miyazaki to perform. They were ExCeLlEnT!! I really want to try belly dancing now. There were other singers there too...All Japanese, they were so funny. Band memebers took off their shirts and they were doing kicks in the air, they were rocking like "Rolling Stones" so funny ^_^

Friday marks the beginning of another long weekend. Yes, it was only a three day working week this week. Yatta!!! So, on Friday I'm going to the city to boost Japan's economy. Saturday and Sunday, there's this annual JET event in Amakusa (somewhere near the beach) Don't know whether I should go? People there I want to see, but someone I'm afraid to see. What to do? What to do?