Hadano International Festival

Isabel and I signed up for this event via Waseda - and made the 1.5hours trip there today. Interesting event held yearly by the Hadano Education Council and the festival seeks to provide a chance for internationals and local junior high school students (13 to 15/16 years old) to mix and speak in English. There were 2 english speech presentations by the students, a skit, free-speaking time, game time and it finished off with a song (Sing - by The Carpenters!). Interesting event and I don't know how but they managed to get people from Poland, Vietnam, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belgium, Israel, USA and even Africa! Didn't take that many pictures but here's a collage:



Best thing about the event? They gave us 3000yen to subsidise our transport fee (which was 650yen 1-way so 1300 2-way) Yay! =P


(P.S. To see a larger version of the picture, just click on the picture!)