Garden festival at Eko Temple 2018

Hello dears!

Last Saturday was the annual Garden Festival at the Eko Temple where I performed with my Koto group. It was a really wonderful day!

I liked it so much because I spend a lot of time chatting with the other students and also with one of my friends who was so lovely and came to help us dressing up in Kimono! Thank you again, it was so amazing of you <333

I was wearing Kimono for the first time and it was sitting perfectly the 2 hours I had to wait for our performance, but when I sat down it got super messed up because I was sitting down in a complete wrong way and also walking wrong. Oh well at least most of the people at the festival don't have a clue about Kimonos so they didn't noticed xD

The concert was over too quickly haha, I'm always nervous at concerts but at the same time it makes so much fun, without performances I feel it's not worth to practise haha ^^'''

Yeah it was such a wonderful day and I was really sad it was over ;__;

Here is also a picture of my own Koto, I'm taking classes now for 1 year but I have my Koto since ~4 months.

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Dokomi 2018

Back in May was the Dokomi again and this year was the first time that I was a volunteer there! My main "job" was helping in the Maid Café in the kitchen and taking polaroid pictures. But I also already came on Thursday and Friday for a few hours each to help setting up the convention.

I could write much more but I think it's not so interesting and I already forgot a lot of things haha. I can just say overall it made a lot of fun, especially taking the polaroid pictures because you could directly interact with the guests and see how you bring them happiness (ok that maybe sound weird xD).

Actually the last few years I already thought about applying a volunteer and also applying as a Maid for the Maid Café, but I was unsure and too shy to do it. But now I think why haven't I done it earlier haha!

So here two pictures I stole from the Maid Café Facebook page, because I totally forgot to take any pictures!

Credit => https://www.instagram.com/fox_talez/

And another picture I took of the beautiful volunteer T-shirt for the Maid Café which unfortunately only arrived after the convention T__T

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Japan Day 2018

Hello dears!

In May was Japantag (Japan Day) in Düsseldorf again. I was sooo tiered in the morning because I worked hard to finish my Kimono Lolita (inspired) outfit. Luckily my dear friend picked me up in the morning with her car and usually on Japan Day I would just meet with my friends and stroll along the rhine promenade, but this time I had something else to do!

I play Koto (japanese harp) since several months and we had a small concert at the Eko Temple. I hadn't a lot of information about the concert before, so I invited my parents and also some friends there! I thought we would play a few pieces and then the people could try to play Koto, and I really wanted to show it to my parents and friends! However the concert turned out to be 1,5 hours and I played almost at the end, but my lovely friend waited until I played <3

Afterwards I wanted to eat lunch with my parents, but I totally forgot how full the city is at Japan Day! Actually the last years I never had a problem to find a place at a restaurant, but this year everywhere were looong lines! So we had to choose one quite empty restaurant which only had Ramen and soggy Karaage. But afterwards we ate the selfmade Matcha ice cream from Takumi which is really delicious!

I wanted to show the rhine promenade to my parents as well but damn my new Btssb shoes hurt soooooooo much and I made the mistake and didn't packed any comfortable shoes to change. I don't know why I always make this stupid mistake but now I swear to god from now on I will always pack my Rhianna bow sneakers, the shoes were so bad my feet hurt the whole damn night and my knee as well because I walked weirdly in them because of the pain T__T

Yeah so my Japan Day was short and painful but still I was happy that I could play Koto haha.

Here another picture of my skirt (worn on a different day but you can see the beautiful fabric better):

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3