FINALLY! Something anime/Japanese related I can dicuss! And I assume this is going to be a pretty long post, I don’t know, let’s just get going and see what happens.
So today I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival starting a noon, cosplay-clad and all hyped up. We arrived a few minutes before noon which was the time the whole thing got started. First thing I did was go “OMG WIN 8D ” because I saw pretty, pink, Cherry-Blossom thingies hanging on the lamps and people walking around. Like this:
Then I walked some and met up with my geek buddies who were doing something goldfish-related. I dun really care about the feesh. I have frogs now my ghosts. Well anways, I said waddup and then we went to an information booth to buy two shirts at the good deal of $10 for both! Will be wearing these for the next two days at school. I love them a lot because they have Japanese writing on them which is an instant win. Then in my excitment we got inside the library building (where this whole shindig was haznin) only to find that the opening ceremony was starting (Aka, people blah-blahing and a big crowd, blech)
LOOK AT THE COOL DANCING LADIES WE FOUND AS WE PUSHED THROUGH THE CROWD:
My main plan was to buy a bonsai tree because I heard about it beforehand and I wanted to add it to my exotic plant collection but they were $20 and most of the one’s they had weren’t for sale. I gotta get the most perfect one. I do love bonsai trees though, some of them are really cool for serz. Here’s the display thing:
There was some more cool stuff too, like an origami guy, an origami girl, uh. . . Well origami yeah lD But my main interest was to check out the Anime Drawing Contest room. Which was where our anime club meets usually so no big deal, I’ve seen it before lulz. I explored until the starting time at 1 in which I returned with art supplies and a ramune, ready to go! There were many tables set up in the room much like this one:
Bleh, Fruit’s Basket playing in the background, I dun like that at all. But I put on my headphones to listen to the amazing Angela Aki and began attempting to work. I had four hours to attempt to create something win-worthy. I sat next to my friends and as they all began quickly working I was stuck, idealess, inspirationless, even though I had spent a good time before the festival finding inspiration and motivation on dA. I was going to draw Arceus but I failed that. I tried Cresselia, failed that. Tried Glaceon, failed that. Tried Torchic, failed that. Tried Charmander, failed that. So I sat, frusterated, an hour and a half into the contest, not knowing what I was going to do, considered quitting once. Then some random, annoying animu fangirls ran over “DRAW A MUDKIP”, they weren’t speaking to me, but I took the idea. Feeling hopeless I drew that Mudkip puking water lD Then as I colored, it became a green energy BEAMUUU! I had fun and I had the thought in my head ‘WHOCARESIFIWINTHISISFUN’. Naturally we all made Mudkip jokes because let’s face it, i herd u liek them. Courtley finished her’s first and it looked super. Then Ducky, then little Ducky sibling. I begged my mom to come down so I wouldn’t be lonely. Then I ended up forcing her to draw. . . She ended up drawing a Purugly and it was actually really good. I’d show you a pic but I don’t have one so here’s me working on fails instead (And my hair looks like crap because of the hairspray and because it was a loooong day):
Check out the necessities of the table, ramune, Ed, MP3 player, other crap sprawled all over the table which annoyed Courtley. The Cherrim belongs to Ducky sibling, but I guess it was nice to have it there? I should have brought my dang Shisa, I love those things, they make me feel speshul. But anyhow, in time I finished my barfing Kip with not much effort put into it because I wanted to be done and I wanted to have something. I had about 20 minutes left until the end of the contest so I went back outside to see what was happening. . . And this was it basically:
And look, the cool dancers from before did some Sakura Aiko thing:
We went back to the hall a few minutes before 4:30 (The time they announced the winners of the drawing contest) and they had us all cooped up in a small hallway, waiting to reenter the room and find out the results. Ducky, Courtley, and I then broke out in a beautiful chorus of the first Pokemon theme, hoping we would get more people to join in and guess what? It worked, almost the whole hallway was singing Pokemon with us and it felt really good. I think they got tired of us cuz after that they let us in the room. A nice lady I know blah-blahed and then the guy that announced the winners got up and well. . . announced winners! For each age group and for fanart and original.
When it finally came to me and my friend’s division, we held our breath. First place for fanart. . . ME! Can you believe it? My puking Mudkip won first place! I was like “nowai.” And first place for original. . . COURTLEY! I believe that, she’s good. I’d like to show you the pic of her when she was coming back from recieving her prize cuz she made this epic pose that my mom actually managed to get a pic of but I know she wouldn’t like it, too bad 
.I wish I had gotten a picture of her piece for this blog but I wasn’t thinking clearly. They’re going to be on display in this one place so I’ll try to get a picture of it for you ghosts later. But I do have my fail, and seriously, I can’t believe this crap won first prize:
After that it was pretty mellow, I got a lot of random congratulations in both English and Japanese from random people but we basically just left. I got yet another ramune because I needed it. I got my mom’s Purugly pic because I love it (I’ll get a picture of that later too) and I’m going to put it on my practically full walls. I was seriously so surprised she actually entered, she was embarrassed about it for some reason, I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
So there you have it, my day of CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND MUDKIPS.
-Cuddles
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