International Festival 2011

             This past weekend was the International Festival 2011 at the Claremont Colleges!  Every year they have a mini-bazaar style festival with booths from all the different countries represented at the Claremont Colleges.  It reminded me a lot of the Seisen Bazaar back home!  (Although I must say Seisen's was more intense with many more countries, and a larger variety of foods.)  Still I had a great time.  I helped out with the Japanese booth (barely - but still a little!) All the money raised at the booth that day was sent to Sendai to a volunteer charity.  Also, at the corner of the booth we had painted a Japanese flag on which people could write a message.  (We encouraged them to write in their native language and we had a handful of interesting ones!!)  The flag will be sent to a middle-school in Sendai.  I hope they like it :)

            今週末は学校でINTERNATIONAL FESTIVALでした。それぞれの国から色々な食べ物や、飲み物、それから音楽やショーがありました！私は日本の屋台で働きました。今回日本のブースが集めたお金は全部仙台のボランティアに送ります！その上、日本の旗を作って、みんなにサインやメッセージを書いてもらいました。この旗は仙台の中学校に送ります。楽しみです〜

Making the Japanese "map" with faces of Japanese children.

サインやメッセージがたっぷりな日本の旗

The Booth!

Finished Japan "map" and information on the earthquake/tsunami.

 日本頑張れ！