i should have taken far more pictures than i eventually did, but well. too bad! there's no such thing as culture festival in singapore, but this is a HUGE thing for students in japanese schools. it's the highlight of the year and students and teachers put in tonnes of effort for it and practise in school till late in the evening for their class performance and the class display, and if you watch enough doramas or read lots of manga u'll definitely have heard of it.
my school's culture festival was spread over 2 days. yesterday was the actual event and was open to family and friends of students, and it was really fun as it was carnival like - think ORA carnivals but better - with food stalls, performances by individual classes, groups or music clubs, class displays etc. and today consisted of performances only, and they were basically the best from yesterday.. it was nice to have a 2nd day like that, but it could be done without i think :P haha. so i've been working on sat and sun this weekend, and i'm REALLY looking forward to my replacement holidays on tues and wed. mainly because while my school is still functioning during the weekend, life beyond school continues, bringing with it the events that occur on weekends. urgh. i think i slept only 5hours or less - each - yesterday and the nigh before.
anyway here are some pictures:
the school hall aka gymnasium
one of the class performances.. they sang SMAP's "orange" , which is one of the nice songs that SMAP has. i think they won 3rd prize in the interclass competition
you had to purchase tickets to buy the food from the stalls that were set up. they had stuff like yakitori, crepe, curry udon/soba, onigiri, milk senbei and takoyaki i think.
crowding around some of the food stalls
the curry stall..
the queue for the crepe.. it was SOOOO long! i of course didnt bother to queue..
anyway if u notice, my school looks very nice and beautiful. that's cos it's a new school - it started only this academic year (ie from April this year)!
so all the classes - except the year3s - in the senior high school had a class display and you can do anything you like. quite a few of them had games, like darts, guessing games, photo displays, optical illusion, the things where u can try on various costumes and have your picture taken, etc. the various clubs also had displays and stuff, so the science club let us make bookmarks out of recycled paper; the manga club had a manga exhibit, etc.
one of the classes had a haunted house display.. it wasnt really scary, but it was kinda fun. and u shd be able to spot The Brit in the photo below, though he wasnt meant to be looking at the camera..
this other class had a classroom full of figures that they made..
the students who're taking the "food course" where they learn cooking and so on made many gingerbread houses that look really delicious!
and ok in here u cant really see their faces so i can post it up, but these 2 kids are in one of the classes i go to, and they were fooling around posing for pictures in the silly costumes that they tried on.. haha:
the other day, the one in white was trying to get some chocolate from me, and he began by saying that he's very hungry and hasnt eaten anything since last night. OH and he did it in english (broken of course, but i got what he was trying to say perfectly), which is great cos he doesnt talk or pay much attention in class and must be applauded for trying to use english, even though it's for a reason such as this. haha. but yeah, seeing that i wasnt going to give in, he exaggerated his story and said that he's very hungry, that his father's company has gone bankrupt and his mum has heart disease, and so he's very hungry and please may he have a piece of chocolate please. then he actually kneeled down and repeated "hungry" and "choco please"! haha. so funny! i couldnt not give in of course, after he'd gone to such lengths to get one puny piece of chocolate from me. though he actually went "1? not 2?" when i was about to hand a piece to him - the audacity! - and almost didnt get any at all :P
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