Mitaka Matsuri + english camp

The new fashion this Autumn ?
And I thought metallica was hard.
Respect +1

Here's a few photos from a festival held in Matsuri, and also an english camp in atsugi.

AUSTRALIA｡BEAT JAPAN!!!

Australia beat Japan in a 3-1 comeback victory to win their first Fifa World Cup match ever!!
I was the only person I know of cheering for Australia, but who cares, we did it.. FINALLY!!

Asakusabashi Matsuri

Today I went to a Matsuri (Japanese traditional festival) in Asakusabashi. The highlight was definately the carrying of the many different omikoshi's by the various shintou groups, the largest of which weights roughly 4 tons. The food was also really great, and the company of course!

Jya ne,

Dom

Chilling

Hey everyone,

Sorry I havn't updated this blog in a while, but I've been really busy lately! (and also the fact I havn't really taken my camera with me since last time).
Heres some photos from a getogther some rotary exchange friends had the other night.

Things that have happened since last update

-Went to an Australian resturaunt in Shibuya 2 times,
-Visted Ikebukuro/sunshine city(60) and Adams school,
-Played darts a few times,
-Saw the DaVinci code in Japanese
-Had Taikusai (like a PE day) ; our class managed to win volleyball
*went out for dinner to celebrate
-Ate Ramen a few times!

Sorry, I can't really be bothered to go into many details but I will tell y'all all about it in due time.

Shibuya

Hachiko is the coolest dog in the world.




These photos are of Shibuya over 2 days.

Asakusa And Akihabara

Heres some photos from asakusa and akihabara!!
This was for an introduction day to the International club at school.
After visiting the temple we had some really beautiful Japanese Ramen in a nice little resuraunt in one of the backstreets. Later on I was amazed to find out how cool some of the fashion in Akihabara was, I was led to believe Akihabara was a technology-only type of place. I had my photo taken with the pirate by a photographer for Marie Claire Magazine which was really cool (fingers crossed, maybe it will be in next months issue).

ClubDay

Yesterday we had a special day to introduce Myojo clubs. Clubs are very big part of the Japanese school culture with a minimal of 75%+ of school students taking up at least one. They vary from Train club (which has one member) to dance, right through to International Club. I ended up joining two clubs, basketball and International club (Which I had no choice in, but I like it anyway). Later that day I was invited by a friend from Germany to come to a blues-rock concert in Akasaya. Akasaya is a very popular section of Tokyo for music, food and in particular foreigners.

Today’s photos: Fashion club members (on the far right is Maria, one of two German exchange students) & Carlos and Phoenix (Carlos is on the bottom, he's from Mexico)