This week was Shirokanesai! It coincided with November 3rd, which is a national holiday (Culture Day). Shirokanesai is our school festival, it takes place over three days and there are many culture events and other random things! Each vendor/stall is run by a club or circle and the money they make is used for fundraising. The festival is very overwhelming though because people just approach you and try their darndest to get you to buy things. It might have been because we're westerners, but it seemed like every person we passed by decided they were either going to practice their English or stare us down as they tried to get us to buy something from them.. very very overwhelming. 

Every poster, t-shirt, sign, banner, etc. said Shirokane Fes.. At first I thought they just forgot the t on fest but then I realized that's just how festival gets shortened in Japan.

This is a club that I want to join! I'm attending a meeting in the next week to see if I can join (Not sure if exchange students are allowed) It's a nonprofit organization that does fundraising events for orphanages and charities in Vietnam and Burma.