A cultural encounter

Listening to: Fly Me to the Moon from Down With Love (an amazing movie everyone should watch)

Currently drinking: Starbucks double mocha (actually it was this morning, but who's counting?)

So the weather in Japan has been becoming more and more beautiful on a daily basis. Every morning the sun shines in my room and helps me to wake up with a big smile and a positive attitude. Needless to say, summer is my favorite season (besides the fact that my birthday is in August). Anyway, yesterday the sun decided to wake me up bright and early, and I didn't really have much to do, aside from study, so I looked around for things to do. 

Thankfully, Catherine reminded me that the Cultural Exchange party was going on, and that she wanted someone to attend with her, so up I got and away we went. It was initially really awkward, it felt like all of the foreign students were put on display for the local community members to look at, somewhat zoo-like, but eventually we all relaxed, and everyone had a good time.

All the best food was put out.

Community and students together :)

Some awesome I-House girls.

These people played traditional Japanese music.
They played so beautifully...

Some local high school girls who have been taking
English for twelve years!

Traditional Japanese drums and dance...sooooo cool.

All in all, the morning was great, and it only took about an hour and a half, so I had plenty of time to spend the rest of the day galavanting about in the sun....seriously it's the best. 

In other news, tomorrow I am going to the main hospital in downtown Nagoya to get my wisdom teeth pulled, so if I'm not too drugged up, I plan on posting all about Japanese dentists/hospitals. But...we'll see how much pain I'm in :/ 

Thanks for reading and love you lattes!