October 5, 2015
Melissa's first month
Hello,
After only around two weeks at school here at Seiritsu, preparations began for the one and only culture festival. The festival itself was just after the rice field outing and silver week, so it felt like one big holiday. On Thursday and Friday students started decorating their classrooms with balloons, cardboard, paint and of course pictures. My favourite classroom was 1-H who created a giant cardboard ‘Tori’ in their doorway to mimic a shrine for their festival themed classroom.
My class made a movie and so the classroom was divided into two with one half playing the movie and the other half doing festival themed games such as goldfish scooping (with toy goldfish!)
The festival itself had a really nice atmosphere with the chance to socialise with students from different year groups and classes and also explore the school. There were so many different themed classrooms with a maze, treasure hunt, American cafe, manga room and fortune telling just being a selection of them. The culture festival was a fun and new experience and unlike anything I’ve ever been a part of before.
Melissa