Fall Colors at the Palace

Last Wednesday my roomie and I went to the East Garden of the Tokyo Imperial Palace to take many photos (over 200) of the fall leaves since both of us had never experienced it before 

It was incredibly beautiful and the weather was perfect while we were there

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Surrounding the Garden is a moat ^_^[[posterous-content:pid___15]]And in that moat there are very large fish and a few nice looking bird fellows[[posterous-content:pid___13]]And on the way back to the station there was a really really awesome ginko tree![[posterous-content:pid___0]]

Sophia Festival 2010

Japanese schools always have festivals! Most are in Middle School and High School but I think they might even do them in Elementary (or maybe that is just Sports Days)

The Highlights of my Sophia Festival Experience

• The Muscle Contest!Because who needs a reason to see guys with their shirts off? They competed by ripping up magazines, arm wrestling, carrying a damsel in distress, swimming across the pool, and drinking a mysterious energy drink. Oh, and the winner won a box of bananas
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•  Miss & Mister Sophia Contest - Where popularity and charm makes you famous in the school newspaper! If only I could have understood what they were saying in their 'dating game' type of set up I saw
• The Food! I only took one picture of what I ate though... Most of the clubs set up a booth and sell something, and then get members of the club to run around to attract customers (sometimes this means cross dressing)
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• The Art Clubs 3D art....I don't have any photos of their amazing work except for the dismembered head from their "The Kiss" rendition
• Tim's Club/Band show- How cool is it that Tim is in a Brass Band?
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• The Dance show- on the last day they had dance performances on the main stage for themost part of the day from different clubs/dance groups
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Art room findings

there are many misc.things in the club room. some make sense...others dont

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