BR 02:Flying Pumpkins!

One of team member explaines, " The ladies that don't like to get involved, they know right around September...October, that it's about time to become a Punkin' Chukin' widow.（p.9）

     There are many interesting festivals in the world and people try to prepare for them by spending most of their time like Japan. This festival is called 'Punkin' Chukin' Contest.'  I'm interested in this festival because the way which they compete is so strange. As you hear the name of it, you may think about Halloween. Before I saw this cover, I guessed about it like you. However, they try to make greater and more strong machine to fly pumpkins! Most of participants are men, so their wives feel stressed and depressed because their husbands are too keen on making them. In Japan, men are also dancing hard to win a yosakoi contest. So, I can understand their situation and feeling. Festivals are just their culture and living!!!

     I want you to read this book and feel their concentration and minds whom men want to protect for a long time.

Waring, Rob. (2008).  Flying pumpkins! Massachusetts: National Geographic.