The Power Suit

Well...I promised I'd put up pictures of me in the suit for Kyudo. Why, you ask? Because I never wear suits, and probably never will for any other reason, in my life. I also think it's funny that I need them for a sport. There are three places kyudo requires first years to wear suits: at kanpa or nomikai (the parties), at competitions, and for taking the school picture. I actually had to wear the suit to class and everyone said I looked wierd, not Jessica like, though very smartly dressed in all. I felt...odd...suits are uncomfortable and I feel out of place in them...but it kind of made me feel a bit more Japanese as well...which is just wierd.

These are pics of me in manami's suit (which is surprisingly just a tad big around the waist) as oppposed to my senpai's suit that I borrowed the first time (which is a tad too small everywhere).

Oh, by the way. Okaasan thought I looked really japanese and I was wondering if black suits are less common in america or something...mostly because all the americans I know who brought suits didn't bring black ones. Okaasan also thought I looked like a, I forger the Japanese word, but someone who is going on lots of interviews for an internship or job right before they graduate. Manami is in that stage now and almost everyother day she's going to interviews and such. She has all these applications and she has to put pictures on each one (see thenikku's recent post for commentary on how to take an ID picture in Japan).

In any case...

Much Love!