Hirata Fire Festival
On Saturday, a bunch of ALTs and I took a 40 minute bus ride out to the sticks to check out some sticks burning. Sounds interesting hey? Well to put it a different way, it was a fire festival in which participants dragged around masses of bamboo stacked into a mound and eventually set it on fire.
Festivals in Japan are fun. They always have the same kind of stalls. They sell fairy floss (cotton candy for you Americans), chocolate covered bananas, toffee strawberries (yummy!) and my favourite.... DONEL kebab!
Anyway, blogger is doing crappy things with the photos so I will try upload them tomorrow. To satisfy your hunger here is a video of some of the event. I would have taken more interesting footage but I ran out of batteries. Sorry if it makes the screen flicker. Meh. Oh yeah, it might take a couple of minutes to load so be patient!
posted by Suzi @ 10:28 pm
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3 Comments:
No wonder you're coming back to OZ as fast as you can!
Hey there,
Sounds like every day life can be quite a challenge up there in Japan. Its great that you're still keeping up your spirits and having some interesting experiences. I'm back in Australia now and looking for a job, but i'm loving the summer weather at the moment. Hope you sort out your phone connection.
George
You may have noticed that Suzanne has not updated her blog since the 14th of February. Please don't assume she will no longer be posting. Fact is she has had trouble with her phone/internet connection. Stay tuned to hear all the details (eg. dealing with Japanese beaurocracy and more)
Love to you all from Maree/Muff
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