You can do it!

Last week I had my last class... ahhh.

Fuji-san from the Board of Education.

First thing I did was spend a good couple of hours cleaning my bike - it's approaching rainy season so once a week the heavens open and I get wet... Then met up with Mina and Christine and went to find a tea house I'd spotted the weekend before, on the way we came across a rather large national dance festival/competition happening downtown - see the things you don't notice because you can't read!

Anyway we were on a tea mission so on we went through the castle park, which is just starting to blossom. I think I'll miss the height of the blossom when I'm home ... nuts.



Then we found the tea house and stopped for a brew.


After that we returned to the fray of the dance festival which was by now in full swing and watched teams from all over Japan get funky. There must have been a few thousand people there and a huge number of participants, all dressed in their special costumes. Japan is good at festivals.



"That's about as useful as a **** flavoured lollipop!"

Perhaps the most enterntaining dancers were the smaller participants - this group were giving it some to "You can do it, put your back in to it" and generally girating way too suggestively for folk of their stature. Easily the best dancing I saw all day was two eight year old girls doing a lengthy routine to a melody of explicit hip-hop... damn it if they're weren't too bootylicious for just about everyone there.