Neko-con 3 was the first convention I went to. I will be going to Katsucon and every one I can go to after that. I had a ton of fun and did a lot of things. I first heard of Neko-con 3 mid 1999. I have read it in some magazine and wait almost a year to go. I almost did not get to go because in October my family decided we are going to move, the weekend of the con. I will skip all of the other detail so I can tell you what I did but I got to go to the con.

Friday:
I left for the convention Friday night after school and arrived around 8:00pm. I meet one of my friends that was working there and I am glad, because he showed me where everything was. After I learned where everything was I looked around the dealers room and to check the prices. Everything was priced good except one or two places. I looked at the swords they had but only bought 4 Slayers pins. Then I went to the hotel to check out the movies and found out they were playing Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. I watched Endless Waltz and it kicked but plus it was weeks before it would be on TV. After that some of my friends left but I wanted to stay and check out more stuff like the artists. I went to the game room and check out a few more videos in the video rooms and I started to get tired and hungry. Then I decided I need to go home and I left around 1:30am.


Saturday:
Saturday was 100x better. I wanted to arrive early but arrived there at 10am when Neko-con opened. Now that I knew where everything was I went to the dealers room and heard that they had new swords so I decided to get one. I did not want to carry around the sword all day so I decided to wait a while. I bought other stuff and the list is below. Later I went back and got a cool sword. After I bought what I wanted I went to the video room and watched macross 7. After that it was around 1pm and the next cool thing was a while away so I had an idea. My friend was working there and I heard that people get free stuff for working there so I went to get more details. I asked my friend where to go and went to talk to the person in charge. I found out I can get free food and sleeping space. I signed up as a gopher and my first job was working registration. I did that for 2 hours and saw tons of cool costumes. I meet a few cool people doing that then I left for my next job. I found out that my next job was working security. I got to work security for cos-play and doing security with a katana is very fun. I met many more cool people there too. Then one of the best things happened. I got to eat! For some reason the hotel would not allow food to be sold. The staff had a room where we could get food like chile and snacks. The food and the sleeping space are why I signed up. Then I went back to work. My job was to made sure people did not use flash cameras. When cos-play started I found out that we had special privlages. We could sit in the first 5 rows that were saved for people in cos-play. The dance was after cos-play and that was my next job. After I helped clear out cos-play I helped move sound equipment. Then I went to the dance to do door security. I met cool people there, got interviewed, and got my picture taken 3 times. I am still looking for the picture now. It is me with my sword, two girls dress up as the Dirty Pair F girls and a friend. When the dance opened up I just had fun. The only thing to drink was water but I found a room that had sodas. The rest of the time I just danced looked for parties. Sadly I could not find a good one. Around 3am I started to get tired. I went to see how the sleeping area was like and found out we got a hotel room. The rooms were the big rooms. The staff has to share the rooms with other staff members but it was not bad because the rooms were big. I would have worked the dance all night but I had to help move the next day.


Sunday:
I woke up early because I wanted to be up by 7am because I had to leave early to go home to pack. The time change was at 2am so everyone had different times and I woke up around 6am and did not realize it. Well when I realized it was 6am I already took my shower and was ready to work my last hour to get my staff t-shirt. The con was not opened yet but the video rooms are always open so I hung out there until the con was opened. When Neko-con opened back up I got my last job and that was helping setup the cos-play replay room and do door security. Then I got another plus DONUTS! Then I finished up my time and got my staff t-shirt that people that work 12+ hours get. I wanted to work 20 hours so I could go to Neko-con free next year but I had to help pack. I signed out and that was about everything I did at Neko-con.

Pictures I took

Nekocon Mascot

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