Monday, August 4, 2008

Nakijin Festival

Well, we went to the festival for the village that we live in. It was awesome. There was little kid sumo, tug-of-war between elementary kids, and of course the classic games and fried food on a stick.


Adventures with Gabe Part Deux

A lot of the younger Imajin boys (and some of the older ones) did this dance to rather catchy music while wearing slightly bizarre outfits and face-paint. Because of his injury, Gabe can’t perform with us, but someone took pity on him and decided that he should join us for the finale, dressed as the boys in the afore mentioned song.

Unfortunately, we have no pictures of the finished product, but we do have a picture of the finished face-paint (as started by Nick and much improved upon my Megan and myself.) We think it was really awesome.

After, when he tried to wipe it off, it turned purple. Which was super awesome. (raw, in Gabe’s words)

Performance

The performance was really good. Imajin was, as always, really good; The traditional dancers were beautiful; ASUKA, a NON-traditional dance groups was really good; We were better than usual, which is always a happy thought. We have video, which hopefully you all will get to see.

Greatest Thing Ever

Right after our show was over, they lit up the laser show which lead into the bestest fireworks show ever. It was like the Japanese version of rhythm n’ booms.

A Familiar Face

Some of you may remember Jin Yakabi, a teacher from Okinawa who taught in Wisconsin for a semester 3 years ago and performed with us. Well, it turns out that he was in Nakajin for the festival, because he recognized us and found Nick to say hi. So, Hi everybody.

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