The local Japanese club at UF put on a Japanese Spring festival for the first time this year. I think it’s a new club, actually.

Anyway, it was really awesome. We got to see some traditional dancing, a few awesome sets of this taiko drumming group that travels all over the world, judo/aikido demonstrations, calligraphy… all in all, Anastasia and I had a wonderful time. The only thing that was really missing from the experience was having Japanese cuisine to sample there as well. As I understand it, the only reason they didn’t have that was the restrictions that the university puts on events held on campus to do with catering. There was also a speech by an official Japanese dude wearing a colourful happi coat from the Consular Office down in Miami or something. Good stuff!