Bunkasai, Sendai Night Out

On October 28th my schools had their Culture Festival, or Bunkasai in Japanese.  Both my middle schools have theirs on the same day so I can only go to one of them, which sucks because I'd really like to see them both.  I went to Niitsuki this year and the kids did the usual of singing and putting on plays.

This picture is of a bunch of kids doing Taiko, which is the name of those drums that you see.  Very cool performance.  The kids that write me letters were performing in this, although I can only see one of them here.  I like watching Taiko performances, especially when the people performing are close to me.  For a video of this, you can watch it here.  I'd like to learn Taiko but I'm definitely too lazy for that.

The school has an all member chorus thing going on where they all sing a few songs.  Afterwards they break into their respective classes to compete against each other for the top prize of a trophy that no one actually gets to take home.  It was fun watching and they actually sang pretty well for the most part.  Video here.



Last Friday a few of us went to Sendai to hang out.  3 of us walked into a bar and sat down talking to 3 girls.  The bar tender told us to get out if we couldn't follow his rules of having fun drinking, but we think honestly he was just jealous.  After we actually did leave, one of the girls that another ALT was trying to hook up with took off.  Worst part was was that he paid for the girls' bill which was 7,800 yen (about $85) and ended up getting nothing out of the night, but that was his fault for being dumb.  The bar owner followed us out and yelled at us to "fuck off," "you got a problem with me?" and to "bring it on" if we wanted to fight.  I would have egged him on a bit more, but if he actually did come running at me for a fight, and the police got involved, I would have been toast.  The Japanese justice system ALWAYS sides with the Japanese before the foreigners, no matter who was in the right.  The best revenge for that?  I got the number of the best one and now we are talking through phone messages.  Not sure anything will happen (she is 3 hours away from me), but it's nice to kind of flirt a little.

かかってこい！ kakatte/koi: Bring it on!