Time Flies

Sunday- ESS’s Sayonara Party.  It was really fun, we went to the sea, and had a barbeque.  But Japanese BBQs are a bit different in Japan, it’s hard to explain.  But it was really good.  Then we just kind of played around on the beach.  After that, 5 of us went to Tsutomu’s house to watch Scary Movie 4 and also to have a little farewell thing for Yudai.  It was a pretty fun day.

Monday- I went to Kyoto to see the NINTENDO building.  It was just a nerdy thing I wanted to do before I left Japan.  Unfortunately Monday was a holiday of sorts, so the building was closed and no one was really there.  It was still cool to see it though.  It was an hour drive there, saw it and took a few pictures, ate at McDonald’s, then drove back.  So a lot of hassle and kind of expensive for my host dad (paid highways suck).  But it was really cooooool!

Then I got ready and stuff, because there was a Rotary dinner.  It got moved to 4:30, really early, because a relative of a Rotary member died, and there was a meeting or something that they also needed to do that night.  I don’t know all the details.  But the dinner was really good and I appreciated it a lot.  I also got some presents from Rotary members and stuff.  Maki-san and Yoshinori were there and I was so HAPPY!  I really miss Yoshinori because he was such an awesome little host brother and we had really similar interests.  Keisuke does not pay that much attention to me, but Yoshinori liked having me around. 

After that, we stopped at UNIQLO (clothing store).  I was checking out with a pair of jeans and a tshirt and my host mother’s like, “Oh, we’ll buy that for you” and I was like “No, no it’s ok” and then I kind of glance at the clothes and then at my host mother…”Oh, thanks!”.  That wasn’t exactly the situation, but it was really nice of them.  They were buying clothes for Keisuke which is why we went.  And that is the outfit I will wear on Sunday it is soooooooo cool.  The tshirt is a really cool one that is Japan-ish, but not touristy.  Most tshirts have English sayings on them, or say ‘NY’ or something because that’s what’s cool in Japan.  So it’s been a bit difficult to find stuff in Japan that’d be cool to bring back and actually different.

Tuesday- Yesterday I just hung out with Jeremy and Cathy after school.  Then Cathy had to leave, and Jeremy and I went to a camera store place and he bought a used one that he wanted.  He wanted a manual one…  But then he went back home and his host mother said that the host family’s rich friend had a camera they could give him.  So we all got in their van…and then the host mother’s like “This will probably take 3 hours at their house” and it was already 6PM, so I was like “Uh…I gotta go” because it would be too late.  But Jeremy got like two cameras…very lucky.  Personally, I’m learning a lot about cameras because Jeremy knows a lot.  Not like a camera nerd, but maybe close.  (Kidding Jeremy)

Typhoon and Earthquake- Typhoon never really hit Osaka.  I was so sad.  I didn’t feel the earthquake either, but a lot of people did here.  It was during my Rotary dinner apparently.

 And I’m kind of excited to go home.  I’m looking forward to seeing people and being in my own country again.  But I’ll definitely miss Japan.