A Noisy Day!

It is Monday, 10am and I am off to bed. The noise outside my apartment is unbelievable as today is the Drunken Horse Festival.

This wonderful festival starts in my town at around 5am and continues until about 8pm. Around 60 groups of people parade around the city making as much noise as they can while getting drunk. Oh, and there is a huge horse at the front of each crowd too which has also been given alcohol so it really is a fun time for all.

According to my teachers a lot of people don’t like it and see it as cruel now but the crowds were still out in force. Seeing as our city’s specialty is raw horse meat I am told that the horses are killed after the parade anyway but I’m not too sure about that……

It was fun in my first year but now I’m over it and I’m going to bed because I haven’t slept yet. A group of us pulled an all-nighter in Fukuoka and caught the first bus back at 6am. We danced and drank the night away and now we’re ready to sleep. おやすみなさい