Ashita Tabun Ame ga Furimasen

hey, dudes. a post is long overdue. i have not been in a decent 'blogging mood' of late, but i'm not gonna let this thing go stale. so: aiu festival, then... the first day was a rainy bastard. what the blazes did i do? wandered up and down the row of student run food booths eating everything in sight. "minnesota" soup made by some japanese students who spent a year at st. cloud state, gyoza from m'ladies, taco salad, some japanese crunchy sandwich type thing called takose, a s'more, and a pita sandwich from hina's friends. derrrr... went up in the school to see some friends in their room, which they called the "art pu cafe", i guess they just liked the sound of the word "pu" and didn't know it meant a steaming dumpski. turns out i did'nt make it past mr. aiu round one to the part where i would have anything to actually participate in. not mr. aiu material, i guess. helped sell some frankfurters for a while, and when i was doing that, a big gust of wind knocked over part of the stage and all the outdoor stuff had to be cancelled for the first day. stinky.

second day, woke up early to catch some rescheduled bands in the auditorium, namely taro's band the mummiez. taro's pretty damn amazing, if somewhat lacking in polish, which is better anyway. crazy bastard. watched the first year students perform in their homeroom type groups. there was a competition for best performance, one group did some kind of super mario sketch, another did the thriller dance and dressed like zombies, suchlike. hmm... played some john fucking denver with the guitar club, sold some more frankfurtersssss... no one really bought any, we still had 100 left over afterward. the closing ceremony was really long, but pretty great. the japanese love their ceremonies. there were more performers, dances mostly, some acrobatic stuff with human pyramids, fireworks, and some student videos. pretty damn fine. it rained all weekend, so the field out front turned into a mud pit, and there were clumps of the stuff all over the school all week long. i think some students must have stayed up for the entire thing, and they were up all night after the closing ceremony tearing things down and cleaning. they were wearing the same clothes and staggering around the next morning. so that was the fest. i'll post some pics and then maybe do another post about last night's goings on, which were pretty coo.