Kamakura and Enoshima Exploring

Dear beautiful friends and strangers,

Today was a dorm event to Kamakura and Enoshima. I usually never join these dorm events but since I'm an R.A now I thought I should show more face and also because Kamakura is one of my bucketlist places that strangely I haven't been to even though it's in Kanagawa... Anyway, it was a really good winter's day with the most beautiful weather! Not too cold nor hot. Also I've realised, this must be a really long time maybe since Summer Holidays that I've gone out to explore Japan. I know, how terrible but I've been really busy!

Anyway in Kamakura, we visited some temples and also the big big big Buddha! Daibutsu! He is gigantic, big and fat. It was a nice site, something you don't see back at home so it was a real wanderlust feel. We were also able to go inside him (I reread that line and I lol'd) and it seemed much smaller inside.

The second temple we visited at Kamakura had so many kids in kimonos and I was seriously in HEAVEN. I wanted to follow so many kids, they were just so adorable! I later learnt that these kids were in kimonos and are visiting the temple because it's apart of a tradition called "Shichi-go-san" (7-5-3). This is when girls that are 7 or 3 and boys that are 5 years old have to dress up in a kimono to celebrate the growth and well-being of young children on November 15 every year. Simple traditions like these get me mega interested and make me fall in love with Japan all over again. Seriously, Japanese kids just get me all the time! I WANT ONE.

Anyway afterwards we headed off to Enoshima. Been there done that. So I didn't really do the activities with them and just chilled at the bottom. CEEBS doing the stairs again, mega tiring (lazy). After all of this, it was a successful day and I keep getting reminded that my time here is limited so I need to visit all the places that I've been wanting to go to.

Have fun with thy video and photos friends!

Kamakura and Enoshima from Gerry Narciso on Vimeo.

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Love G 

School Festival!

Yay for the School Festival! Have always wanted to experience this because every drama or anime you watch some sort of school festival episode is in there and it is pretty much what I thought it would be lol. It's like a normal festival with heaps of different food just with more wacky costumes and more performances everywhere.

Since I helped out the Global Supporters booth we were making pizzas the whole day. When I was doing advertising which is holding a sign and getting people to eat your stuff, I would taste every other booth out there as well haha. Through out the day they had performances around the university and trust it feels like the university spent so much money. But regardless, it was soo much fun. My favourite has gotta be the Eisa club. They're on the video near the end, but seriously they bring a vibe that's just so entertaining and it is so much better to watch in real life.

On top of everything there was Mr. and Ms. Obirin competition which is a serious pageant with the university students and I have thought of it to be completely idiotic, and I was right haha. Like there was this segment where the girls showed the outfits they would wear on a normal winter day... so stupid. Also when they would all come around everyone would want photos with them... lame. (I'm such a hater lol!).

Anyway here are videos and photos. Lots of costumes and lots of cross dressing.

School Festival from Gerry Narciso on Vimeo.

They lit up the field with candles and it was soooo pretty.