Just Another Day in the Adventure

I visited Soft Bank yesterday and I was... sorta victorious. The Soft Bank shop near the 99yen shop does indeed sell prepaid cell phones to foreign students (yay!) but due to the fact that there are so many of us all looking for phones, they were sold out when I visited. I will visit again Friday to see if they have any more in.

Last night I had Chinese so nothing really new to relay about the meals I have been eating.

This weekend:
This weekend is a three day weekend since Monday is "Respect for the Aged Day," which means that I can procrastinate on my homework until Monday (hee hee). Though my plans for this weekend are very vague, one thing is for sure. I will be going with my Anthropology class to see the Eisa festival.

For those of you (like me) have never heard of the Eisa festival until now, here's a little background information. After the war, America held juristidiction over Japan until they wrote Japan a new constitution (which is currently a subject of debate within Japan, but that's another story). However, the Americans held onto the island Okinawa for a significantly longer amount of time than they did the rest of the islands. After the Americans left, Okinawa experienced a diaspera that resulted in a large group of Okinawans settling in the Kansai area (Osaka-Kyoto). Because of this diaspera, every year, the Okinawans in the Kansai area hold a festival that acts as an ethnic assertion festival. This festival is huge, and features ethnic dances as well as Japanified rock and roll (the result of the longer period of American occupation in Okinawa).

I think this will be very enjoyable, and on top of everything, we are encouraged to take pictures. So, saturday I will go on a quest for batteries for my camera and hopefully will have enough space on my card to capture the event. Then, having a card reader will become my top priority.