Nagoya University Summer festival (Meidaisai)

Okay, these are a few picture of the Nagoya University Festival (Meidaisai). I wanted to post more, but I also want to post a few other pictures to tell you about people I know (and my camera needs to be recharged so I want to get those pictures in in another article). Let me quickly explain about some of these picture (without an explanation, some will look really strange). The top left and bottom right pictures are some guys in drag dancing for a very large crowd (it was extremly funny). I have video of it, but I don't know how to put it on my blog yet. But the event attracted the largest crowd of any other event that I saw. There were many different acts on guys in drag (some of which I wish I had never seen). I wish I could show you the video I took with my digital camera (then you would understand). When I figure out how to load that on here, it will be the first thing you see. Now the top right picture (from left to right). My friend Celcil from Brazil, it is always fun to hang out with him (he speaks Japanese better than I do). Then there is some guy that was working at an icecream stand, but he has on a type of traditional japanese shirt (I don't remember what it is called) so we asked him to stand in the picture (actually I wanted everyone from that booth to stand in the picture, but I think that would have been asking to much). Next in line is my friend Paul from Equador. I like talking to him because he speaks English very well (and he understands the way that I mean thinks-in English of course, some things cannot be translated directly-he understands the sarcasim and the hidden meaning of the words). Also, he is interesting to talk to (he likes apples). Then ofcourse, there is some girl in a Kimono. I don't know her, but I think the other girl working in the booth (selling icecream) wearing the blue Kimono should have posed with us instead. After that is me (I'm doing something crazy in the picture Uncle Rick! I'm eating Japanese icecream with red beans and rice balls at the same time). Next picture (from the top left, the second down). Nothing to explain. Paul, some other girl in a Kimono and myself. At the bottom is the Fire dance. I only caught the end. This photo was from the previous day at the festival (I was to busy to go that day, so I missed everything except the end of the fire dance).