The day started with a long-awaited snowy weather. Unlike the past few days, today's snowflakes drifted slowly and gracefully in the air. Everyone was rather excited about this.
After breakfast, we had a short rehearsal for the upcoming skit we had to perform later in the morning (outside in the cold!).
We left our hotels and set off to Kitami City Working Youth Centre, where most of the events took part today.
We experienced the making of mochi. Two representatives from each country were given the chance to use a
kine - large wooden mallet and
usu - large wooden mortars to pound the mochi.
Right after the mochi making session, a few countries perform on the stage, including Singapore. We started off the performance with a singing session of the popular National Day song, Where I Belong. However, to spice things up, we also added in the Great Singapore Workout to get the rest to dance along.
The centre was also filled with shopping booths which sell various items, ranging from food to accessories. It was a good time for everyone to get to know each other more.
We headed over to Kitami's City Hall, where the Asian International Children's Film Festival 2016 Award Ceremony took place. Special and honourable guests arrived and handed out the awards to different teams for their films. Unfortunately, our film wasn't one of them (hopefully next year's team would get an award!)
We ended off the Ceremony with a sing along session. As the representative for this segment, I went up stage with the other fellow representatives and award winners to sing the film festival's theme song - Message. It was a challenge for me because the song was in Japanese, but all was good because everyone else didn't know how to sing as well. Photo-taking was strictly prohibited inside the hall, so no photos of me singing!
The day reached a conclusion after we enjoyed dinner outdoors. We met new friends and enjoyed the free food provided by the vendors. It was truly an experience like no other.
Photo Credits: Arin Tan
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