Last Saturday, I went to festival of my highschool. I watch students' chorus. In our highschool it is tradition that we make chorus with member of the block. I think I should explain about what BLOCK is. We have each team called BLOCK. There are 7 blocks (A to F), which have their own block color because my school has 7 classes in each grade. And the class which belong to a block is chosen randomely. For example, Block G consistsof 1-4 and 2-3 and 3-7. These are determined by lot. It is block reader who draws the lot. And not only combination, but also block color is determined by the lot.


There are 7 color, red, pink, purple, blue, yellow, orange, green. And during preparation term for the festival, students wear the their own block color's things. They have towels which is their own block color. And during preparation term, each classroom get to dye in their block color.On the very day of the school festival, girls wear small ribon or hair accessory, of course, which are all block color! And we make block color's ties by ourself from cloth, whch we bimd around our waist. Moreover, we have that towel around our neck. So, if you see a student in myhidgschool festival, you can identify what block he blong to. It's very fantastic. My block color was orange, so I was quite orange!('u')



There are one block reader in each block. They are 3 grade student. Generally, the block reader is a boy who is the coolest or funniest in the class. When they become block reader, they get to be known to everyone in our shool. And they seem to be famous idol! On the very day of the festival, almost all the girls want to take picture with block readers. They become like star!!!I was a part reader (alto), I felt very nervous and anxiety about it. In our school, we must sing a song with members of our block. That is a contest, so everyone in 3 grade want to win the first prize because it is last chance! I thought so, too. In the preparetion for festival, our teachers are seldome helps us. We must deside by ourselves what we willsing, when and where will we have practice and what practice we do today. All blocks have enthusiasm, so there are many practice afterschool, even in the morning. I think, in order to win first prize, the most important thing is to unite. if 1 or 2 grade students of our block didn't like this block, maybe they wouldn't feel they want to sing desperately as amember of the block. But unfortunatly, because the class I belonged to didn't allow us to blong to any club, we had very few junior students we knew... So I desided to make friends with them willingly.



Because I was a part leader of alto, I tried to make friends with junior students during rest time between a chorus practice. I could make it. And they were nice and cute! I had fun in talking with them a lot. Our song was very difficult song, so we had to practice very hard. But the member of our block tried hard. And at the festival, We won the first prize in chorus!! If you won the first prize in the chorus, only your block is allowed to sing on a stage at the last. That was the most move thing in my life!　It was amazing!　I will never forget that time.　

And we have a play in that festival, I played a rule. I felt very nervous and embarrassing, But it was fun. We had a play about war which was made by in of my classmates, The story was romantic. It was also love story. There is a girl who met a ghost waiting for boyfriend with whom she made a promise that they meet after war, The girl was me! And The ghost had died by bomb before she met him. But at the last scene it turned the boyfriend she was waiting was the girl’s(my) grandfather,
They could met, so that ghost could go to the heaven.

We got second prize!!!!!

It was very fantastic!!