| Apr. 4th, 2006 @ 11:12 pm Penis Festival |
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Well I was lazy before and didn't post anything about the penis festival other then pictures so here's a little blurb of stuff that happened an what not.
So me, Joanna, and Martyna left by bike to Minna Yono station at 8 in the morning so we could make it to Kawasaki to meet the rest of the Polish population in Japan (their friends) by 10 in Kawasaki. So we made it with little issues and spent some time waiting for those crazy Polish because they were late, for shame. When they got there we started to make our way to the shrine but we didn't know where it was...Lucky for us there was a tour guide with a group of foreigners (because like 80% of the people at the festival are foreign). So we followed like we were a part of the group and made it to the festival. We were a little surprised because we thought it was kinda bigger buuuut it was really kinda small. we quickly found the giant pink penis as it's huge and pink. So we walked around and looked at the few things like the daikon radishes being carved into penii, the random merchandise, and the over priced freaky suckers...there was a big line at the cheaper better looking suckers I guess, I never found them so yeah. So after looking around there was something with the kids doing something so we went and watch a kind of dance. After that we stood waiting since we had fairly good spots to see the next parts. So next was a lady/man I'm not sure doing some blessing or something to the giant penis (the black metal looking one). So they blessed the penis and then that started the walking around town with them. So we watched them get ready to go men, women, childern, and cross dressers getting ready to lift the huge things for a walk around town. It was pretty funny and I have some lovely video that I should upload. We proceeded to follow the parade and chase after the giant penii haahaa. So at some point during the chase some of the group cried for beer so we went in search. We went to family Mart and they had little beer as many people had the same urge to drink so we left and continued to walk going back towards the parade and I saved the day when I found a beer vending machine and there was much rejoicing amongst the Polish. So we followed the parade until it was gonna turn around so we turned back and went to another Shrine nearby on the way back and it was nice and penis free. So after eating and looking around we went back to the penis shrine to see if there was anything fun to buy and see if anything else would be happaneing. The only thing going on was some hula dancing and I found nothing fun to buy how sad. So that ended that. Afterwards we ended up going to Izakaya for drinks. I personally wanted to go back for I had enough as I was the only person who knows not a word of Polish (one other girl wasn't fluent but knew some)...so yeah most of the day was people talking in Polish whihc was kinda annoying. for a while my friends tried to encourage English speaking by answering in English but then gave up. So overall it was kinda boring for me to just be there with them. The other funny thing at the Izakaya was special because this crazy drunk Japanese lady that kept coming over and started to teach Japanese drinking songs and such it was pretty messed up and funny. So that ended the day I went back home and everyone else went back to someone's apartment. It sucked 'cause it was raining and I had to ride my bike in the rain ;_; how sad. And that is the quick recap of the Penis Festival yeeees.
And of course I have some pics...
you know you want more.... http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v247/genkigimp/Penis%20Festival/?start=0 |
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