Margarita Munoz Salazar

On April 15, 2023 Japanese Plus was able to have a booth in the biggest Japanese festival of the country, Sakura Matsuri.  Although our booth wasn’t the biggest or most entertaining, I can proudly say our whole group enjoyed the whole experience.  

We got to interact with people that came up to our booth asking questions about the program. People coming up to us and talking about their own experience with Japan. It was very interesting to see how all of us there were connected by a common interest in Japan. However, there were moments when the booth would die down. So my classmates and I were able to sneak out of the booth and look around. Close to us there were people writing your name in Japanese calligraphy. All of us learned how to write our names but we just wanted to do that for fun. I would say that that’s how the whole festival felt, just having fun even if you already know or don’t know what you are learning about Japan.