We had a second christmas party hosted by the English department on Wednesday, which was ace, probably a lot better than the first. The hong kong students had just arrived at Junten and I was shocked at how outgoing they all were. Not a single shy one to be seen, which is a massive change from the Japanese students. Dozens of them asked for photos with us, compared to the zero Japanese students that have asked me for one. They were a really friendly bunch, and their English was spot on which again came as a shock since Japanese students, in general, speak pretty poor English.
Tons happened on the day, free lunch (clearly the most important), Christmas games (mostly the same as the other party), singing 12 days of christmas, a performance by Junten's choir club (first I'd heard of one existing), another by the foreign language club. Then after a few presentations about Christmas in Hong Kong, Germany and Scotland, we were given an amazing performance of Shorinji Kempo. It was really ace, normally they just go out and perform a few embus, but here they kind of made a backstory and turned it into an English language skit, a really funny one at that about some Yakuza stealing someone's manga and this person eventually learning Shorinji and being able to get his stuff back. Included in the story were fighting mothers: played by male shorinji students in pink aprons; and Doraemon with a gun (I think. It was a guy in blue with a bell, I'm sure it was meant to be Doraemon or some other kids character anyhow). The brass band also gave a show, which was the most intense thing of the day. They seriously never cease to amaze me, every time I've seen them play it's been top notch. Really hard to believe that they're a school club and not a professional band.
And yes, thats me dressed as santa. I was forced to, but luckily only for a short bit of time to dish out some sweets.
Not a bad party I have to say. It's just too bad the Hong Kong students leave on monday, it was quite nice to have a huge amount of English speakers in Junten.
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