I am currently in Bunkyo Tokyo Japan right now at Bunkyo Gakuin University. This study abroad program will be about 4 months long. This is my first blog ever so we'll see how it goes. I will try to at least do an update once a week for my time here in Japan. I promise no long blogs so bare with me! >.< Oh and there probably might be short videos here and there!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Nezu Festival on Sunday Sept. 16th 2012
The Nezu Festival! It was quite a day. Very fun experience. My classmates and I helped carry a portable shrine (mikoshi) around the neighborhood where we live because it was an activity for our class Shinto and Buddhism. The Nezu Shrine is located about 5 minutes away. Check out the video and picture below. Where you see the group of people carrying a shrine, that's what we did too. Because of my height, the shrine never touched my shoulder. At one point it did because all the tall people took a rest? 0.o But it was definitely an arm work out because the more the mikoshi shakes, the better of the god! It's a once in a life time experience and I'm glad I did it. Oh and we carried the shrine for a good 3 hrs!
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