Lots of smiles in Hamakaze-festival
To all the readers of Nanikana blog, how was your weekend? To all of Kanda University students, did you go to Hamakaze-festival?On 28th and 29th of October, there is Hamakaze-festival held at Kanda University of International Studies. This year was the 20th anniversary; the theme was “Full of Harmony”. As I saw in Hamakaze-festival, there are many people smiling, with enjoying Hamakaze-festival.
The first day of Hamakaze-festival on 28th of October, the weather is clearly sunshine covers Makuhari’s sky. In my club, environment club “Ecoism” was selling deposit drink, which is good to environment by recycling the bottle, sold two-third of drinks in the first day. There are no many organization sells drinks, so my club did it well in Hamakaze-festival. For “Ecoism”, this is the last year of participating Hamakaze-festival, so this year’s participate crowns all of the ecoism activities. Because of the sunny day in Hamakaze-festival, there are lots of people came to festival,
I also went to the group I interviewed. Many group rallied lots of customers to sale, or make customer to participate many events, there are plenty of effort. There is “Kyudo club” held cockshy game, “Jazz Session Department” held Jazz concert, “English Speaking Society” held English speaking contest and sale Yakisoba, Japanese fried noodle. As the university of international studies, there are shops making traditional food from Korea, Brazil, Thai and many other countries food was appear in Hamakaze-festival. It was good chance to get those traditional food or culture in Hamakaze-festival. Unfortunately, the second day’s weather was cloudy but many people came to festival, and many shops were sold out product that was happily scream for them.There are many stage performance at central maidan, many music band played music and traditional dancing from all over the world. I was impressed that one band formed by Kanda university teacher and played music with full of smile. Teachers were Mr.Usui (He is teaching communication classes) and Mr.Kurosaki (teaching American politics, culture, history and so on). Vegetable Samba (Swing Gang Jazz laboratory and Ultra-Seven laboratory), and Jazzep (Swing Gang Jazz laboratory and Step-In dance club) made collaboration at stage.
In the point to think about global environment, there is club thinks about global issues. There are groups figure about landmine issue in all over the world, concerning Far East Asia nation, to focus on Yasukuni shrine problem in Far East Asia. Also, “Ecoism” did deposit drink sale to think about global environment issue too. To conceive of international issue, those presentations were priceless issues to think more, in Kanda University. In young generation, many people tries to escape from thinking those issues, but I think we have to know about what kind of problem in this world, to make more harmony in this planet.I have not been to other university school festival, but the point of view is the Kanda University’s characteristic, there are to feel various countries by eat or know more the information, to think about global issues, but not to forget to enjoy school festival. Since this year is 20th anniversary of Hamakaze-festival, after the school festival finished, there is comedian live show held at gym. There are big names of comedian, “Up-Down”, “Garage-sale”, and Mr.Hosei Yamazaki. The live was end with big cheer of Kanda University students.
To sum up, there were many smiles in Hamakaze-festival. I also enjoyed as a one Kanda University student, also as an interviewer of Nanikana blog. To feel international culture, to eat various delicious foods, look at lots of exhibition, I am looking forward to next year’s Hamakaze-festival.
Written by Yuta Akutsu
Photo – Sights in Hamakaze-festival 2006
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