I know, I know! I know that feeling! When you see just a bit of the festival site, you feel like: "I'm finally here". It's like the feeling of finally arriving at an oasis after a long ride. So, here we have a report from risa who experienced this. I'm really happy to know that someone knows where I'm coming from.
We're still accepting your experience reports. I hope that the reports will help the people who are coming to FRF for the first time. The word count should be about 400 to 1000 and put "FRF report" as a subject and send it to ORG-master.
Reported by ORG-master and translated by ORG-yuko and ORG-yohei with a help of ORG-jason & ORG-damon (May 8, 2002)
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Last year was my first time to Fuji Rock. Before, I always thought "It's much better to go wild at a club. Fuji Rock is so far, and it's too hot outside!" Besides, I just hated getting tan. Most of my friends are rockers and they told me that "you won't know if you don't go", but still I didn't listen to them. I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I don't jump on hot topics that everyone likes. But when I saw my favorite artist on the 2001 line-up, I told myself: "I have to go definitely!" My friends were looking at me like "So, you finally made up your mind to go, yeah?" But I was a bit nervous and impatient because it was my first time and I needed some knowledge about the area and cautionary info for girls!
We left at night and took about 3 hours to arrive at the station. We were waiting for a while and took a bus to Naeba. When I saw the all the rockers at the field, tears came down my face for no reason. It was just regular festival site, but the tears trickled down, even though it was a little embarrassing. The site looked very attractive to me because my daily life is just going back and forth between a small company and home. Everybody does something in their daily life, but they all come to Naeba for the 3 days. It's so nice. I cried a little again when I walked under the gate heading towards the stage. And I was impressed with the place. I stayed at the Green stage and took a nap, and looked at the dragon flies. I was living freely, doing anything I wanted. Usually, there's not many chances to look up the sky, but I found out that the sky was so big and I felt myself so small.
I went on the 2nd and 3rd day, as well. I usually hate to get a suntan, so I wear long sleeves. But this time, I basked in the sun and got tanned. Also, I suffered from some cold-sores on my lips, which made them three times larger than usual, but it's all a good memory. I decided to save money for Fuji Rock, but in vain. However, I'm gonna force myself to go for 3 days, because I was so impressed with the place. My dream is to go there by bike, and when I get married and have a child, I'm going to take them to Fuji Rock with me. I hope that Fuji Rock will last 'till then. I'm gonna support it forever.
letter from risa (May 8, 2002)
