It’s Bunkasai(文化祭）season again. Japanese schools usually hold these festivals on weekends, and go through a lot of work to put them together. The junior high schools usually have choral performances on Saturdays, and theatrical performances on Sundays. You can also visit their classrooms and view some of the projects and artwork that they’ve put together throughout the year. They spend many weeks practicing for this major event.
Tomorrow, I am also going to be attending a High School festival. They are a little different than the typical junior high festival. The classrooms are all theme based, and in the gym there are various performances. These festivals are an interesting part of Japanese culture, as most students these days are participating in them. If you teach in Japan, you will eventually end up at one of these.
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