I met Nobuko at school today so we could to go the school festival together. There were a lot of people there, so it was kind of crazy, but a lot of fun. I had some ジャージャー麺 (jaa jaa men, Chinese noodles) and some Jijimi (Korean pancake). I saw Eun-jeong and So-hee at the Jijimi booth since they're both in the Korean Exchange Student Club. The jijimi flipping was kind of impressive. Haha. Anyway, after that, I went to Bldg. 9 to find Tom since he said he was going to be dressed up like a schoolgirl all day. When I got to the room it said: コスプレ＆ゲイBar (Cosplay & Gay Bar). Then Nobuko and I looked in and there were a bunch of guys (basketball players, hahaha) dressed as girls, sitting at little makeshift cafe-like tables talking to people who paid for little snacks. Hahahahaha. It was like one of those things you see on those Japanese dramas. Some of them were really pretty too! And the ones with make up actually had good makeup. It was sorta scary in a funny way.
After that, we went to the stage to watch G-Splash, Sophia's best dance team. They were amazing~! If you look them up on Youtube, they're there. We also ran into Wendy and Melissa, so we watched the Mr. Sophia Contest together. Wendy was rooting for contestant four, who was on the basketball team. (Five contestants total, one of them was even a foreigner.) They did questions and answers, self-promotion, and marriage proposals. (I know, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it was fun to watch.) We were all rooting for number four, but number three had the best proposal. He picked Kobukuro's "永遠にともに" for background music. It was something along the lines of, "We've had a lot of good times and hard times, haven't we? Shouldn't we end this kind of relationship? [insert audience confusion and "へぇー？"] Marry me.” [insert audience understanding and "あぁー！"] Anyway, Wendy took all of our voting papers and voted for number four. XD
Before they announced the winner, JONTE performed. He's another Korean singer crossing over into the Japanese market, so I thought I wouldn't like him, but daaang, he can really sing. (And he actually isn't crossing over, I just found out, he's a 在日韓国人-- Korean person born in Japan.) He sang his first single, "ゆれる." Afterwards, as expected, number four walked away named Mr. Sophia 2007. Hahahaha.
I went to Starbucks with Wendy and Nobuko after that, but Wendy had to go home. The rest of the night was spent at karaoke with Nobuko, where we discovered that the only songs we can both sing are Hamasaki Ayumi songs since we have different taste in English and Japanese music. XD What a fun day. =D
