The party which makes you forget a whole year!

I am going to talk about Bounenkai, the party held in the last of a year. Bounenkai is not popular to us when we were high school students. The kind of party is often held in communities of adults. Last year I participated in the Bounennkai of Odorizamurai. It was so fun, too fun! Because the members of my club are always serious about performing something in front of audience, even that is only their fellow. Because of this, all performances by members are high-quality. The bounen party was held in Ito, Shizuoka. There is Yosakoi festival in Ito the last part of a year, and our team participates in it every year. The one point for which the Ito Yosakoi festival is deferent from other festivals for us is that we have a bounen party in the hotel we would stay after the festival. I had not experienced it, but senior member had told me that the party is so funny every year. I was looking forward for it for a long time.

One day before Ito Yosakoi festival, I got a mail from the member who takes charge of planning all events in our club life. She asked me to work as one of leaders for Bounen party. It seemed to be so fun! However, at first I hesitated over it because I had a lot of homework to do and I was busy. At last I decided to do with three fellows. We were delegates in 1st grade members. The team for performance was separated by grade and sex. There are 4 teams, the team of 2nd grade girls member, 1st grade girls member, the team of 1st grade boys member, the team of 2nd grade boys member. We have even practice in group many times before the day of Bounen party.

In Bounen party, we perform the dance of famous idles’ songs wearing school uniforms we actually wore in high school days. Our performance was very nice. We were admired by many senior members after that. To lead the group was a bit hard, however I could experienced good time.

In the party, the best I got to like was the performance of boys (mixture of 1 and 2 and 3 grade members). They didn’t dance or sing at all. Can you guess what did they do?
It was disguising as women that they did! It was so funny and interesting. Some boy didn’t change very much from what he was and others changed dramatically.
Especially one of 2nd grade members was so beautiful. I wonder he was more beautiful than I (boy in fact)! The one of 3rd grade member was so pretty!
I wish I had taken pictures of them, but I didn’t have a camera then. I regret that.

After the Bounen party we stayed one more day in Ito only with 1st grade members. We went to the shop in which many fish products and local products were sold. Though that place was so nice (we can see the great sea from outside of the shop), almost all members were too tired to move and see the sea. Therefore only the un-tired member went to see the beautiful view. I was one of the most vigorous then! I enjoyed there too enough.


After that we went to the hotel we would stay. The Japanese hotel was smallish and had something cute. Because we all did not sleep at all, we laid as soon as soon as arriving our room.

At night, the dinner of the hotel was excellent. It was so delicious. We made long chat after the dinner and went to spa. Hot water made our tired body (because of hard schedule) so relax. I love spa. After the spa, we talk on the futon and went to buy sweets to a convenient store. On the way we returned the hotel, everyone said “The stars are so bright and beautiful.” Sadly I didn’t wear my glasses at that time. Therefore I couldn’t watch the beautiful stars in clear.

At night, we kept on talking by midnight. It was fun enough to decide to stay up late, but we couldn’t because we lack of sleeping time drastic even the point of the previous day.

I really enjoyed that trip! I want to go again.