早稲田祭 pt. 2

Waseda-sai is a huge, two-day school festival with performances, art displays, food, and games put on by students, clubs, and some guests. Many, many students come and even people not affiliated with the school come too. This is about how many people were there:



And that's only the main street. When I came in, I got an entire book filled with a schedule and descriptions of events. Saturday I spent mostly just going around to see the dance performances.



That's the girls' dance done by one of the hip-hop groups. There are 3 or 4 street dance clubs, and they all have at least 40 people in them.



This guy was an mc for one of them. He danced a bit too.



This is Shockers, the all-male cheerleading group. I thought they would be kind of lame, but they are really awesome actually. They did some crazy stunts and even made a four-story human pyramid! They have tons of fans.



I'm not sure who this group was, but everyone was cosplaying a random character.



This is the tap club. They had some really cute dances~



This group was doing taiko, Japanese drumming. I've loved taiko since I started going to Michelle's performances about 3 or 4 years ago, so I was happy to see some taiko here.

The next day I was in one of the performances! :D I got to be in one of the pieces done by the modern dance club. It is the only modern dance club here and there are less than 20 of us... but I thought it was a great performance. One guy who graduated last year did a hilarious solo. Most of the pieces we did there are going to be in the performance in a couple weeks also.

After that I had a little time to get some food. I went to the Niji booth and got some pon de queso (Brazilian food). I helped carry a sign around for a bit through the enormous crowds too.



After that we had rehearsal all afternoon, and then went out for a cast party. It was another really fun day, but I was exhausted...and I had 1st period in the morning.

早稲田祭

November 5-6 was Waseda-sai! I got really lucky that week too with holidays, and ended up having a 5-day weekend :D

One of those days I went to Shibuya. A few days before that, I stopped there to wander around by myself. I found a Sbarro (which is the only place I know of that puts pizza sausage on pizza instead of the kind of sausage you eat on a bun...), a 5-story fabric store, and a bunch of other sweet stores. This time I went with my friend Liz.



This is in Shibuya 109, 9 floors filled to the brim with the most stylish fashion in Tokyo today. It's really awesome in there, but unfortunately it's pretty expensive and also most stores only carry one size of everything. This pillar was paper-mached like how we did Kelly's bookshelves this summer ^_^



This is a random, really long wall on one of the back streets that's filled with graffiti. It was really interesting art.







I went back to Waseda a bit early for dance that day a happened upon the pre-festival.



They were still setting up the main stage. Then I found some people practicing a sketch on another stage.



They were dressed up Ultraman style is sweet costumes. The play was really hilarious. The announcer girl got kidnapped by the yellow guy, and the Blue Ranger came to save her. But he got overpowered, so Kumaizo...



...came to the rescue. He gave the Ranger the Waseda sword and he defeated the yellow guy. It was like watching anime in real life hahah (note: Waseda's mascot is a bear, and kuma means bear, which is where Kumaizo comes from)

After that I went to dance to practice for our performance in Waseda-sai. More on that later----