Ueda Higashi Senior High School Graduation

Graduation in Japan is a really important event in Japan. This is graduation from school. Families will spend up to around ¥100,000 (₤500) for the best kimonos for their daughters and nice suits for their sons. I knew that this was going to be a special occasion so I had my suit dry cleaned. What I didn’t count on was the burning sunburn from skiing the day before. Although it wasn’t that bad, I had a classic “goggle tan” and looked a little stupid.

My class of 18 year olds were really genki and hyper.

There were a few more other students but they didn't show up to the end of year meeting. Virtually all of them went to Uni.