The date of the contests is nearing and therefore we meet with the director (Mr. Kubo) and the light officer to explain what we intend to do for our performance.
These are long and well-organized meetings, because we won't be able to rehearse on the Expo's stage, therefore everything has to be studied in every small detail in a totally different context. Because of a series of misunderstandings me and the Spanish and German girls weren't warned that the recitation assigned to us individuals has to be singing but since I personally have already prepared something different I am given carte blanche on my performance which consists of singing but not only that.
We spend the afternoon and time before dinner rehearsing our parts in Tv Aichi studios then bone-tired we return to the hotel in preparation to the tour de force that awaits us the next few days.

Each contestant has different appointments.
France, Spain, Germany, America & China team also arrive together, so while the individuals of each country are sent to welcome the groups the others are split between a Tv program at the Expo and rehearsals for the contest.
The evening schedule should be an invitation by one of the sponsors of the Kermesse, the Joysound, at a buffet dinner with karaoke in the mega-hall in their head office.
All the teams, individual or in group, perform with songs (strictly in original language) but I manage to involve the head of Joysound (Mr.Yoshida), a lively fiftish man, into a duet with me on the notes of Mazinger Z and I win the contest among a bunch of flowers and amiable hugs and pats on the shoulders ^_^

The prizes for all contestants are also many gadgets representing the irresistible Expo mascottes: Morizo & Kikkoro.
These two funny characters that you see infested every corner of Nagoya city because they're mascottes and testimonials of the Expo.
Since Expo is devoted to nature the two characters should portray some kind of tree or nature spirits; their Japanese names are Morizo (the fatty) and Kikkoro (the dolly), soon italianized into Maurizio and Kikko.
Too funny!!! *_*
They were on every surface, gadget (legal or not, I suspect) and other more, basically they were everywhere, they also had animes!!!