School Festival

There was a school festival for three days; October 31st through November 2nd.
The first day the costume parade was held. We dressed up as something along theme decided by each group. This year our theme was Disney Character!! We disguised Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and the others.What do you think I became? I became Winnie The Pooh!! I like him very much so I was happy.

The second day we open a street stall. We sold "Baby Kasutera". It is like a sponge cake. We put chocolate, caramel and bean paste in the cake. It is very delicious!! Many people came to our store and bought it. We enjoyed making Baby Kasutera and selling it.

School festival gave us a lot of things, for example importance of help, pleasure, cooperation with my friends and so on. We had a precious time for this two days.

LOVE Kyudo★＾゜

Last saturday, I retired from kyudo club. Because it is traditional to retire in November when we are in a third grade. I have done kyudo for about 6 years, and I want to continue it but, for the present, I will get down to doing job hunting...(>_<) When we retire from our kyudo club, we hold a match that right club members and seniors take part in. I couldn't win this time, but it is a reassuring thing that may juniors defeat for us.
This is our classic event, we are tossed in to the air by our juniors. In this year, members who retired are only three. I'm an only girl, but I'm a fat (・ё・), so I pitied my juniors...↓↓
They are my seniors called OB in Japan. "OB" is an abbreviation of "old boy". You wonder that there are girls, but we say OB? To be accurate senior girls call "OG", but generally we call all seniors "OB".
They are my juniors. After I retired from this club, they have only 1 girl. I'm worry about that. She is a beginner and she can't take part in team competition. Kyudo that we do as university student is usually team sports. She is a pretty girl and kind to me, always I cheered up by her.
After my last campus match, they held drinking party for us. I like drinking, we had a wonderful time. After the party, in my boyfriend's home, we held game party! He has a variety of game machines. I enjoyed it.
I love kyudo, I love my club members. Thank you kyudo, Thank you everyone...
From now on, I will join the club as OB!!('・зｄｂ

track and field

Today I will introduce about my club activity！！



I belong to track and field club now, and there are about fifty members in my club.
This picture is my classmates. They are all third grade of Yamanashi University.
Sometimes we argue with each other, but they like sports very much, and good partner as same club members.

We had a big meeting in this spring. It took place in a national stadium in Tokyo, we called the meeting "Kanto-Inter College". Our team took part in relay race, but the meeting level was very high, so we couldn't advance to the final. But thanks to the meeting, we had a good experience.
That's all. Thank you！！

☆emotion☆

Today, I will introduce Fujinomiya autumn festival. It takes place in November 3th, 4th, 5th every year. I went there only first day. The second day is main of this festival. Regrettably, I have class in Yamanashi, so I couldn't go.

This festival is very big. People in many communities who worshipped at Sengen shrine got together and shared their happiness and thankfulness for rich harvest by playing music called"ohayashi" (お囃子), pulling around floats called"dashi"(山車), and dancing. So, You can see as many as 20 floats pulled around the streets.
This picture is dashi which my community has. My community name is "Kantate"(神立). Generally we play "ohayashi" with drums and gones and flutes on"dashi".

Then if we meet another dashi on the street, we compete with "ohayashi" to decide which one's rhythm is better. The competition is called "seriai"(競り合い). This picture display the situation of "seriai". The streets are very narrow and two floats couldn't pass. So winner could pass.

There are many boothes in Sengen shrine. I ate takoyaki and crepe and frankfurt and so on. I ate too much. And I had a good time. I'm looking forward to taking part in next festival.