"Otsukaresama!"

Twenty-seven seminar students went out to dinner to celebrate the success of the JIU Festival. We went to Yutaka which is probably one of the only places in Togane where they can accommodate so many people and don't charge that much for such delicious food.

Finally

I was finally able to upload some photos of the JIU Festival 2011 in the JIU Festival page. Please take a look at that page. I am loading a few here as well. Apologies for the technical problem.

Dancing to "Aquarela do Brasil."

Lots of graduate students came support us. Some with great news such as "We got married." and some showed up with their children.

Dancing with our guests.

Final day, final group photo with the two awards they received.

Singing "Aquarela do Brasil."

JIU Festival

We successfully ended the 20th JIU festival yesterday. This year we sang Aquarela do Brasil and displayed posters on the Boi Bumba Festival in the Cafe Amazonas. Thanks to the cooperation of our loyal supporters we were able to achieve our goal of making at least 300,000 yen to donate to charity. We appreciate your kindness. Muito obrigada!

The 20th JIU Festival

We successfully ended the 20th JIU festival yesterday. This year we sang Aquarela do Brasil and displayed posters on the Boi Bumba Festival in the Cafe Amazonas. Thanks to the cooperation of our loyal supporters we were able to achieve our goal of making at least 300,000 yen to donate to charity. We appreciate your kindness. Muito obrigada!

Morita-kun modeling

On Wednesday Morita-kun was kind enough to put on the things I brought from Brazil for the research presentation on the Amazon Festival of the Boi Bumbá.

Preparations for the JIU Festival

On Saturday we started testing the food we'll be selling at the JIU Festival this year. We cooked and ate a lot in my house!