So before
we go on vacation I figured I should briefly the merriment that happened before
vacation. The first weekend in August was Minato Matsuri in Shimizu, a summer
port festival that actually honors a mafia guy that made the port but shhhh. SO
festival! Food, fireworks, dancing! Dancing?
On the
Saturday night of the festival there is epic dancing in the streets for like 2
and a half hours. Like, 50,000 people epic dancing. And for me, it isn't fun
unless I know what I'm doing, so the week before was super practice time (we
kinda didn't sign up until a couple weeks before and lost track of time).
Dancing every night was a pain in the ass, but I learned them. It was hot, but
lots of fun! Not a lot of people in our group knew what they were doing (poor
exchange students basically thrown into it), but there were enough
knowledgeable people to follow. Did I mention our group leader was dressed as
Spiderman? So I danced in the streets with Spiderman, and I think my friend and
I were pretty good. A drunk man even came by and gave me a nametag that said いいね,
which means nice! And I wasn't that sore, which was good for what was coming the next week...
But before we get into that, on Tuesday I actually did some work at a summer camp...riding cardboard
canoes.
Cardboard
canoes.
I was
pretty skeptical, as were my colleagues. Us, some exchange students, and some
junior high schoolers spent a couple hours taping the shit out of some
cardboard and covering it in duct tape. I wasn't going to ride in it, but then
I figured why not sink and we gave it a go. It held two people. I was very
impressed. It even held my over six foot tall coworker (alone though). And then
right after that, I hurried home to get on a bus to my next big adventure...Fuji.
~Rosie
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