Kyoto University Festival

Lately work's been quite hectic, so I didn't have much time to write. And since I had so much work, I didn't have time to do anything worth writing about...
But! I had some free time this Sunday and Monday, so on Sunday I went to the Kanze Theater. Kanze is the most famous Noh family (and Noh is an old Japanese theater - something like our opera; if you don't know what it is about, you won't understand a thing). My boss gave me ticekts to see her friend's performance, but it turned out that it was some amateour group performing that day and they were basically only singing the score. For seven hours.
So me and Mindy (a girl from the US that I met recently) decided to retreat pretty fast and went to the Heian Jingu for a walk in the gardens. The maple leaves are nearing their finest now, so it was very nice to just stroll through the temple's gardens, gossping. (Pictures below: me at the Heain Jingu garden)
On Monday I went to Nara with my fellow KyoDai (Kyoto Daigaku) students. I was supposed to teach a high school class, which basically ended with me tormenting a group of poor 16 year-olds. I told them a bit about myself, about Poland (lifestyle, history, famous things, etc.) and my internship at Tondaya. I guess I almost gave one boy a heart attack when I asked for a volounteer to show a traditional Polish greeting (3 times kiss plus hug - you can imagine how a Japanese person would react to that. But I DID warn him.)
Later the students asked me all kinds of questions (what's my favorite manga, how many languages can I speak, do I often fight with my boyfriend and so on).
And today evening I went to the KyoDai Bunka Sai - "culture festival". I wish we had something like that on our universities. Every club organizes some activities; some people sell food (made by themselves) and everybody's drinking. So I was selling baby-castella (a kind of cake, originally from Portugal) today with other students, amazing everybody with my drinking abilities (??), sitting in a kotatsu and watching the performances. I guess the most bizzare thing of all was the performance of the cheering club (I can't find a better name for that). It's something like cheerleaders, but there are also guys and an orchestra. They were very serious about it, but I couldn't stop laughing (at first I didn't know what was it and asked Natsuki if it's a kind of comedy... turns out that it wasn't. You can check out this link to see what is it about, more or less:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7feO8KCS1n8&feature=related). This kind of thing is called Oendan and, I suppose, it's only practiced in Japan.