that's a guy, by the way

it's that time of the year (or at least i think it is) - bunkasai time. bunkasai is - from what i have seen - when an school opens it's doors to the public for one weekend per year. the classes are set up as various things, shops, plays, restaurants, bars, exhibitions, after school clubs etc. and people are allowed to walk through at their leisure.

on sunday, i went with kat (another aussie exchange student) to an all boys' high school's bunkasai close by here. when we arrived it was overflowing with students, there were also quite a lot of girls there, i suppose they were all searching for hot guys. when kat and i first walked in, it reminded me of that scene from the hitchcock movie 'the birds'. i think every single person was looking straight at us. the school was interesting, there was tons of rooms displaying various things: a plantarium(?), a magic show room, a bar, a band playing in the gym, an art exhibition, and lots more that i forgot. there was a goldfish catching room where you get a bowl and a 'net', which is really a plastic circle with tissue paper as the 'net', making it completely impossible to catch a fish. kat tried her hardest, but the paper broke. but the nice blokes running the goldfish room gave her a fish out of pity.

the most interesting thing by far would have been the play. they decided to do a high school love story, and usually love stories need a female and a male part. but it's an all boys school, right? the guys that played the girl parts looked amazingly feminine.. it was so funny too, my stomach was aching from laughing. the 2 main characters even kissed at the end, as an encore. brave. pictured is me with one of the boys from the play.

this weekend there's 2 other bunkasai on that i know of - kat's school at oofuna and shonan high. i also have another pointless meeting with my area rep.