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There was a school festival in Yamanashi University last weekend, from November 2nd to November 4th to be exact. This festival is held once a year in our university around the beginning of November and it is a good opportunity for us to chum with many students beyond grades.
In the first day, my juniors who belong to the same department as mine took part in a costume parade. This parade is an annual event in the festival and bout 10 groups takes part in this parade every year and contend for precedence. In my department, it is first year students' custom to participate in the parade. Actually, I joined it last year with the same grade students in my department. We made various kinds of traditional clothes in the world . I wore Chima-chogori which is a Korean traditional cloth. I used sheets to make it! This year, my juniors pretended characters of One-piece. Do you know this comic? It is one of famous comics among the young Japanese.
After the parade, I prepared sweets for the next day. In my volunteer club, we were going to open the sweets booth. So, we made sweets that day. We used about 800g of sweet potatoes. At first, we peeled all sweet potatoes. After that, we cut them in pieces. Then,steam and strained them. After adding sugar, eggs, butter etc, we kneaded them. At last, we baked them. It took about 7 hours. This is the picture of the sweet. We could make them very well but... even though what I did was only making sweets, I had muscular pain ..and I didn't want to see sweet potetoes no more for the time being....

The second day, we sold these sweets. Our sweets had a good reputation. In addition to the club, I sold octopus flitters with my department students. Octopus flitters are nommally baked and soft , but we fried them and they were crisp. It tastes yummy. InYamanashi University, there are about 200 international students. And some of them opened food boothes. For example, Malaysian sold curry noodle and chocolate cakes, and chinese studensts sold chinese meat dumplings. They were very very delicious!!

The last day, Japanese comedians and musisian came to our university. Through the festival, it wasn't jummed so much, but when they came, it was crowded. I had a good time with my friend in the last day as not a seller but a buyer. There were many food boothes, so I ｇave way to the temptation to eat these food... I have to try to keep ia a diet from now on...( 　>△)o"
　We ended the festival off with a drinking party. Drinking parties after the events are common in Japan. Especially, nomi-houdai(飲み放題）is very common when we drink with "a lot of" members. Nimi-houdai means that we can drink as much as we want for about 3000yen in pubs within 2hours. But.. there are some problem if we drink in a pub in "Yamanashi". Recently, the traffic rule is becoming very strict. Even though I commute to school by motorbike everyday, I have to go back by train instead of motorbike. We can't go back by "bicycle". In Yamanashi, public facilities for travel such as train , bus are not convenient because the last train or bus is very early and they don't come frequently, once in hour or so at night. Thinking how to go back to home after a drinking party is tiresome for me. But, of course, I pretty enjoined this drinking party and talked a lot with friends.
Do you have any festival in your university? How about a drinking party in your country?