October 2, 2012

Jesse's Bunkasai Experience

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In September we held our “Bunkasai” or school culture fair. All of the clubs and all the classes choose something to make or do, and then sell or show it to people who come to the school that day. The event started on Saturday 29th September, and finished Sunday 30th. People from all sorts of places come to the fair, either because they live relatively close and it’s heaps of fun, or because they have friends and family at the school, or because they are graduates from the school.


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My Japanese Home Room was doing a “Meiro”, or maze, which consisted of lots of cardboard. I can now say that I am an undisputed master of sticking bits of cardboard to other bits of cardboard. The maze was one of the activities that needed a lot of effort setting up, but not much to actually run it. This setting up included hours on end of taping large pieces of cardboard to each other.


Because it was very low maintenance, most of the kids from my class could go out and do other things, so I was able to help with the English Conversation Club. In the club we continued the long tradition of fortune telling, also known as “uranai”. This meant drawing people in and chatting to them about how good their English is, and then doing the rest of the telling in English. This involved lots of talking to children as well as adults, so we ended up having a really good time even though we couldn’t really leave the room for too long.


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Overall, between keeping busy doing jobs, and frantic running around to find food in our breaks (which was delicious I might add), it was a really good weekend, and a huge amount of fun.

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Seiritsu Gakuen is a private co-educational high school created in 1925 and it is located in Tokyo, Japan.

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