Honolulu Festival!!

Normally, I would sleep in till after 8:00am in the morning on Fridays. However, Priscilla and I woke up early today and went to the Hawaii Cultural Center, where the Honolulu Festival is taking place today and the next few days. It was actually an event for Priscilla's Japanese class, but I tagged along.

There were several events, all from the West Pacific (Japan, Taiwan, Australia), going on in the huge hall. At around 9:30am, we Japanese students went into the hall with middle school students who came for something like a field trip. We were there to help guide them and teach them a little. I think I ended up learning a few things myself!





Here is one of the few Japanese mikoshi for women. For those who don't know, mikoshi is a kind of "portable temple". LOL





This one totally didn't make any sense, but I just thought it was funny!



There was a section where we could write shodo. I was surprised that the middle school students could all write their names in katakana. Can you see my messy name up there?

This is what I personally enjoyed the most: the Australian Aborigines! It was funny because they all wore traditional attire, but spoke in perfect Australian English and later went out for a smoke outside on the streets (still in traditional attire)!

They did some dances, and one guy played the didgeridoo... what an interesting instrument!





We finally finished just before 12:00pm.. it was tiring but fun! Priscilla and I went to Ala Moana food court to eat lunch, then was picked up and brought home by Naomi.

There wasn't any time to rest though.. very soon it was time for our geography lab class! Fortunately, it wasn't too hard, so we got home at around 3:30pm.


For dinner, we went out to dinner again to celebrate Priscilla's birthday, this time at a place called "Islands"!Tiffany also came to join us, and we had a great time! Thank you Pastor & Mrs. Stafford for treating all of us!

Finally, we all came back to our house and watched "Pride and Prejudice". A very nice movie to watch at night!

We're going to a KCC beach party tomorrow.. yay!!