★A parade through the city★

Yesterday all the circles of culture in our school paraded through the city for publicity purposes. What were the publicity of? It's our school festival called Takumasai. We're going to have it on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of November in 2007.

We had been preparing for the parade since this summer vacation. We had made our own costumes and a portable shrine together. It had been so hot that it had been hotter in our club room. It was as hot as if one had been in a sauna but we tried to make costumes and a portable shrine as hard as our can. In spite of having class the next days, we worked till at ten p.m..

The appointed day arrived at last. Boys members carried our portable shrine to Shirakawa Park from at five thirty and girls members cleaned our workshop from at six thirty. After that we girls members put on costumes and put on makeup carefully. We put on red eye shadow and black eyeliner to the diagonally above as if we had been dragon tamers after for our portable shrine whose theme was a powerful white dragon. And then we put our hair up and painted our nails red. Boys members also put on makeup meant to give impressions of dragon tamers. I found making up, a person change very much.

After an opening ceremony we left our school. It was a fine day and we walked in the afternoon sun so we're dying of thirst. We had something to drink twice only when we rested at Shirakawa Park. We bathing in the sun on our way to our school, our back were very red.

We had a wonderful time because of having been taking great pains until yesterday. Now my back and shoulders hurt due to getting sunburned but this has become a pleasant memory for me.

See you again!!