English Conversation Class and Hanabi taikai! :D

Today was one amazing day :D So for a while now i've been trying to set up this english conversation class for the Japanese people, and today was the first lesson! There were 5 others and there should be more coming next week! It was quite fun, and i think i can say it went quite well :) It seems not many Japanese actually know anything about Christianity at all... which is sad... there really needs to be a lot of work done here! But praise God the class went well today :) Please pray that the rest of the classes go well too!

Anyways, after the class, Takatsuya (one of the dudes that came to the English conversation class) and I met up with the others at Ichikawa Daimon for the fireworks festival :D I can't express how absolutely awesome the fireworks were :0

In Japan the fireworks work quite differently to how they do in Australia. They go for about an hour and a half, and they do short bursts or sets for a few minutes then take breaks in between. All up i took 34 videos, so i think there were 34 sets unless i missed one! So they spread out the fireworks, unlike in Sydney how they shoot them all at once and go crazy! There are also a lot more interesting fireworks (like happy faces, sad faces, stars, love hearts, cat faces and fish!), and they are made to be enjoyed over a longer time, and you get to say "WOW" more often because they go psycho at the end of each set, and the finale is an absolute killer :D. They are also very well patterned :) It's not like New year's in Sydney when everyone is drunk and rowdy haha... The location was also perfect! Surrounded by mountains, the fireworks were shot from a river area, and we were RIGHT in front! :D Thanks to one of our Japanese friends we were able to reserve a place super close to the fireworks, and the view was amazing to say the least :) Oh yeah, and during one of the breaks, a dude proposed to his girlfriend and she said yes :D Awesome stuff! The videos are obviously nowhere near as good as the real thing, but hopefully you can see how awesome they were anyways :D

I apologise for the annoying voices in the videos lol!

Here's a video with the interested shaped fireworks! xD

This one here is the second last set, and it ended so amazingly that we thought it was the last! Turns out we were wrong :)

And here's a video of the final set :D

There's also a bunch of other stuff which i havent gotten around to blogging about, but photos are up on facebook and photos tell a thousand words :D