cultural festival day

Umm, at lots of the universities, it's actually like a national holiday in Japan. I think this coming up Monday is like "culture day".

It was Friday. Oh, it's Friday. Okay, so yesterday. So today

They're having all the festivals at the universities which are really fun so we decided to take a trip to our old University

For old times sake and we're gonna go visit the festival there

But first we got to stop at the grocery store and get some like treats

because its kind of like a tradition for the older students to bring like a

Little present for the students that are working at the bunkasai now

We're gonna get some cookies or something like that. Alright, let's find the snacks

We could get them drinks, too.

Yeah, but enough for everybody?

Yeah, that would be hard to carry.

There's some salty snacks.

Yeah, I think like the bag of cookies or something was a good idea

I remember one year, somebody brought like a box of donuts for my group, and everyone was so happy.

Maple cookies

M&m's

Where are those bags of like... yeah this kind of stuff

Like these ones or something?

We could get them some Oreos like one of each flavor

Look they have these as much of Kit Kats right and they're like 278 yeah, then they have these ones over here that are

368 so maybe there are different ones. You were saying you thought it was just a different package but..

what is Manu? Oh if they have like tea leaves in them?

Oh, I think this one is new. But this must be stronger. Yeah, thats new.

We could get them like take a bunch of different KitKat's

What do you think?

Let's do that, I guess, they can argue over which one they want. lol

All right, snack done

So they have these pins every year there's some for boys here and some for girls here. And you have to find your matching your pair

Lucky number 217

I got 237

All right, lets go find our boyfriends. Are you going to get one, Greg?

Find 217 (lol)

197 all right, let's go. Let's see who can find their match first

So the basic idea of the cultural festival

It's basically just like, there's lots of food, the students form little groups, and they have tables where they sell things, mostly food

Some people do performances like the clubs will do performances. Lots of dance performances and stuff like that. Those would be happening probably later on today

So I'll try and catch some of those. Our university is actually an international university, so there's lots of students from all over Europe.

There's probably some American students here at the moment at least some North American students, but mostly Europeans, Hungarians

Norwegians

This was my semi, Ichiyama Semi. They're always really hardcore. They do a great job at the bunksai

Our teacher is Brazilian, so they often have Brazilian themed food here

So here's the main area with all the booths, it's already like 2:00 p.m.

So lots of the popular booths have already sold out of all their food

the festival goes on for two days though, so

If they have leftover ingredients they''ll be selling stuff again tomorrow

We're just going to find my homeroom teacher now to say hi. It's been a while since I've seen her

Wanna be in my video. Hi!

So every year we would get a room we wouldn't know which room we were gonna get it's kind of like a draw.

And then we'd have to decorate it like the theme.

for the year

I'm pretty sure I made that, they're reusing it. That's cheating!

So each homeroom will research a topic and then they'll present about it in the display here

It looks like their theme was coffee this year

So my teachers was just telling me that they'd like to mash this up and spread it on a banana and eat it that way

That sounds good. Sharl: yeah that sounded good

That's what the adults like to do, and the children just eats it, like this, like a snack

Ah, that smells like peanut butter

Oh my god, that smells so good!

It's taste just like

Reese's peanut butter cup without the chocolates

They had a Canadian booth, they had poutine. What? There were never enough Canadian students when I was here, so we didn't get our own booth

I was always with the Americans. I'm jealous. So each booth will post their

Posters on the walls and stuff to advertise what they're selling. It's always like a big competition, you try to be the most popular booth

every year

Alright the festival is closing up now. Didn't find my boyfriend. Did you find your boyfriend, Nicole?

No, I didn't. I still have mine.

Greg, did you find your girlfriend?

No? We're all going home single

We're gonna go say bye to our teachers now. And then Greg wants to get some sushi before we go home.

Look at the lights, it's almost Christmas

Halloween's over it's Christmas now

So it's a typhoon now

Not actually it might as well be one

We went to leave the festival and we go outside and it's crazy windy and rainy like all of a sudden

So we borrowed some umbrellas from my teacher

She's never going to get back.

And we're going to sushi now.

A bowl

So we're at sushi now. So at this place

They give you a little notepad and

you write down your order on here. You can actually call them over and order that way, but I like writing it down

It's easier. And I feel like they don't forget things. If you do it this way. Greg. What are you doing?

What is that, Greg?

Sriracha

Where did that some from?!

Greg sneaks in his own sriracha 'cause he like mixing it with the soy sauce

Nice work

Every time Greg comes to sushi he gets french fries.

I need it

Is it good?

Is it good as you expected?

Alight guys we're gonna enjoy our sushi, so I'm gonna say bye here. Hope you enjoy coming to the festival with us

And I'll see you again soon

Bye guys!