Oma Tuna Festival

Well, since I posted a video on youtube, and plastered my facebook profile with Oma related things, I might as well complete the trifecta and make a blog post about it.  Also, I will try to make this nice and fancy like I see other people doing what with the photos and videos and what not.

The trip was awesome, three of us went.  It was me, another teacher from Noheji (藤森先生 Fujimori sensei) and his friend Ｊｕｎｅ (I don't know the kanji for his name).  Here's a picture of us 3.

I need to get my peace sign a little higher.

So we go to Oma, a 2 hour drive.  And let me tell you, the car ride was something to write home about.  It begins (about 10 minutes into the drive) with an innocent English song on June's super fancy Japanese DVD/CD/GPS thing in his car.  I'm like "ooh English, cool, who's your favorite singer?"  He says "hehrrieedoof" and I'm like, hmmm, not really sure if I know that singer.  Then he pops in a DVD of his favorite singer.  It begins with some crazy intro thing, then it hits me, Hillary Duff.  The next hour and 50 minutes consisted of random Hillary Duff videos being played instead of his GPS being displayed on the car.  This caused us to miss a few turns and having to pause the video so he could bring up the GPS.  Each time the video was paused, he apologized like he had just accidentally chopped off my hand.  I wasn't even really watching, because I had awesome views outside to look at.  Japan's mountains are something I will miss.

<3 Japanese countryside

In any case, after the DVD exclusive Hillary Duff music video of her hit single Fly, we arrived in a nice small town on the northern tip of Japan's main island.  I got to see for my own eyes a nice traditional tuna chopping and serving.  If pictures are worth a thousand words, and this video gets 30 frames per second, this video is 151 seconds long, that makes for a solid 4530 pictures, thus saving me 4,530,000 words.  Anyways, heres the video. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgEIHtLOe3s

Bonus extra at the end of the video, random people dancing at the festival.  Sweet.


And then we ate.

And that's about it.  Toodles.