Foreigners are always superstars

Friday the school put on a New Student Welcome performance at the Citizens' Hall. Each club did a short act to convince new freshmen to join. The video the English club students made got a laugh. The audience also cheered the dance put on by the P. E. class that had the Hawaiian exchange student flourishing her long, blonde hair while "beating up" students from a "rival" school as part of the act.

The Citizens' Hall was also showing an exhibit of oshie, a traditional Japanese art that's kind of a cross between a quilt and a mosaic. I dropped by the exhibit before the school's performance started, and the lady who organized it asked me to come back today for an oshie lesson. (She had mailed me an invitation earlier, but I was lazy and didn't reply by the deadline.)

When I showed up this morning, I was surprised to find a photographer present. It seems a bunch of foreigners (ALTs and exchange students) in town were all invited, and the photographer went around taking pictures of the whole process of the foreigners learning how to do oshie. I hadn't expected that, but I did want to learn this particular craft, so oh well. I have no idea where the photographs are going to wind up being published...I probably should have asked.

( Oshie demonstration )