WORLDWIDE | Tuesday, 8 November 2011 | Views [190]
This is the gauntlet stadium walk into the Naha City Stadium where the opening ceremonies for the 5th Annual Uchinanchu Festival were being held. The festival takes place every 5 years and it is an opportunity for native Okinawans to reunite with friends and family as they pour in from all corners of the planet. The Festival represented the opening of a whole new world for me, my Grandmother's Old World, and as I walked down the rich orange hallway toward the officials in their bright jackets, I was excited to find what was waiting for us in the light at the end of the tunnel.
