Sorry, this is rushed- I'm super busy this week! Last weekend I attended the Nada-no-Kenka Matsuri festival with Amy, Kristy, Luke, Asuka, and Diana. According to Asuka, it's a rice festival where several villages compete by bashing mikoshi into each other. Apparently it's good luck when one breaks! To me, it looked more like a weird kind of demolition derby- tons of sweaty, drunken, half-naked men trying to kill one another with large wooden structures. Each village had two mikoshi- smaller ones that were rammed at full-force into each other and smashed, and larger ones that carried four drummers and were more "bumped" into each other. One village (called Mega) befriended us and even gave us some bamboo pom-poms (see the group pic). Actually, I think they were only interested in my flatmates (Amy and Kristy),
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