The second day of helping at the festival didn’t start off the best way possible, I was driving fellow Bulldogs, Taylor and Maddie to the festival and at the stoplight at Meridian and 46st, I was hit from behind (While I was stopped at the red light). So, the day was already off to an odd start, but it was turned even odder for me when we first arrived at the Festival. While walking around and looking at all of the countries booth’s that were present one was about Africa knowledge, the lady approached myself, Maddie, and Taylor and saw we all went to Butler and said “Let’s see if the Bulldogs are smarter than the people from Fort Wayne” this is a my hometown, but I knew she meant the school Purdue Fort Wayne which used to be called IPFW. This remark really caught me off guard because I am from Fort Wayne and always want to show off my city, but she had no idea so I didn’t mention it, instead I chimed in and joked and said, “Yea, Bulldogs are way better than the Mastodons” This lady gave us all a blank map and was testing our Geography skills, sadly we didn’t get all of the countries but a lot were talked about and pointed out on the maps by the 3 of us. Below is a picture of the map we were handed.
The next major performance that happened on this day was that we saw Hanako perform the Japanese drum dance that her group did. It was very cool dance because they each had their own drums that looked like a bigger and obviously much louder tambourine, but the way they marched around the stage, and swung back and forth with every drumbeat was cool. While this wasn’t the only performance we watched on this day, it was only one we knew of someone performing in it show we had to show the fellow Bulldog some love. This performance in particular stuck me differently because, if a Final Jeopardy question was what culture this music from is, I would have had no idea. This was a main theme for me during the week because I’m just not socially aware of other cultures specific music. Luckily, the days at the festival helped me grow my musical repertoire for other cultures and you never know, if I get on Jeopardy maybe that will be a category of Final Jeopardy question.
Until next time,
Patrick
