AIU Festival

Today was the first day of the AIU Festival. (Apparently all Japanese colleges have these festivals, which also double as a open campus [college tour]) There were so many different things to do, but my favorite thing was the stalls on one of the walkways. There was everything from fried Bananas to Macha (green tea) Milk to Korean foods to local produce! Everything that I tried was super yummy and cheap, majority of these stalls are run by AIU student groups (eg. Tennis Club, Korean Club, etc) with only a few outside groups running stalls. I plan on supporting these groups again tomorrow for my breakfast, lunch and dinner! There are also many rooms in the academic buildings that have been taken over by clubs to act as cafes or galleries. There was quite the variety of things offered and I enjoyed exploring them with my friends.

There is more than food being offered too, as I type this there is a student band playing covers of some famous American songs and I know that there were various other performances and activities to do as well. I did not get to go to all of these events because I was helping out at the ZOMBIE ROOM. Which was super fun, the group that ran this sent out an email asking for volunteers to help with their activity and as it turns out, only the foreign students signed up to help. So not only was it a zombie room, it was a zombie foreign room- double the scare factor. I got quite into the role and dressed to impress... or scare.  The room itself was pretty plain, and was super dark with glow stick to light the path, and us zombies hid where ever we could- and proceeded to moan, groan and shriek and chase our victims. All in all, very good fun.


All things considered, it rained almost the entire day with a couple breaks in the light showers, we had a great number of people come! It was super fun seeing so many people at the campus! I will take pictures tomorrow morning of all the beautiful decorations on campus, because it is simply stunning to see what the Japanese students have been working themselves to the bone on. I need to go to bed early tonight because tomorrow I am on the stage with two friends doing a dance, which I hope to get on video.