Fashionistas

If you had told me a few weeks ago that I’d be in a fashion show, I’d laugh. If you’d told me I’d be in an Asian fashion show, I’d say you were crazy.

But there I was on Saturday night, up on stage with Kai at Villanova. The Asian Students Association was putting on their annual Asian Expo, and the fashion show - “Asian Elegance” - was the opening event. Since Maria is one of the few Asian faculty members she is, almost by default, involved in events like these. My presence was only incidental: they really wanted Kai. In addition to being cute, he had a Japanese boy’s summer festival outfit to show off. He insisted on having Mommy or Daddy with him though. Maria doesn’t have any especially “Asian” outfits, but I have a men’s summer kimono that was made for me by Yuka’s mother (Yuka lives in Osaka Japan, and is a friend of Maria’s), so I got to go on stage with him. Click the image below to see the video! There’s a lot of ambient crowd noise, so you’ll need to turn up the volume if you want to hear what I’m saying.

Kai was a real trooper. He had a stomach flu the night before, and he was up all night. He was better in the morning, and even though he was tired, he wouldn’t take a nap. We were going to cancel our appearance, but Kai somehow still had some energy, and he wanted to go. We were supposed to be onstage at 6:30, but the show was delayed almost an hour. Kai was getting very sleepy, but he got jazzed up when he saw all the stage lights, and, as you can see, he did fine.