Enjoying new cultures

On Sunday I was invited, along with some of my guest house members, to attend a live Indian music performance in Tokyo. The building that the performance was held in, was actually just someone’s home which, often hosts this kind of event. The house was about 60 years old and was traditional Japanese style. The performance was upstairs and there were 35 guests who came to watch the show. The musicians all wore traditional Indian outfits and played in traditional style. There were three members in the group. One was from India and the other two were Japanese. They played for about an hour, without stopping, and then had a second part to the show where the man from India did dancing. It was interesting because he was dressed like a woman for this part and even had make up on his face. He was dancing in the form of the Indian goddess Shiva and used his feet like drums, to the music. After the show was over, there was a big dinner party and we all had huge amounts of curry and naan. It was so delicious! At dinner everybody had a chance to talk and get to know each other and it was really nice because there were so many people from many different cultures all having a good time together.