Well here I am, almost done with this grand adventure of mine. Soon I'll be back home into the 100+ degree Arizona heat and far away from Japan. I'm not really dreading it or anything like that. I've done what I was supposed to here, made lots of memories, learned more then I could ever write down and now its time to move onto the next stage of my life. If anything I am going to miss all of the other foreign exchange students the most. I think of almost all of them as my best friends and I am really going to be sad when I can't see them everyday anymore, but that's life. I am really looking forward to being home though. I really want to see my family and friends.
So last week was golden week and obviously monday I had a big adventure but on tuesday I was so sore I could barely move. I went out for lunch because my host mom's mom died (she was almost 100) but beside that I stayed in my room a lot that day.
Wednesday there was a barbecue with the students from the Konan Cube campus. It was a nice get together and was kind of funny to see how much these kids did not know what they were doing. They just dumped whole bags of meat on the grill for crying out loud. Christy, Emily and Juliene wanted to go to Den Den town and I never turn down a chance to go to Den Den town so I went along. Emily and Juliene were on a quest to find non pornographic doujinshin (fan comics of popular characters) and that is a really hard thing to do. Christy got a terabyte hard drive for $110 and was so happy and thought it was the cheapest thing in the world I was trying not to bust her bubble that $110 isn't that much cheaper then the ones in America. After the girls headed home I decided to try and find the madarake in shinsaibashi and eat out since my host mom had to go to Tokyo for the funeral. I didn't find it but I walked all the way back to Umeda and got some neat night shots. Osaka is a really nice city. I ended up going to the mandarake in umeda and got this saber figure for $5! I don't know how they make it so cheap. I think some of them might be opened but they all look new and have all of the packaging so I don't care. They also have the cheapest prices I have seen for perfect grade gundam models. Like $65 for the MK2. I was tempted to buy it and ship it home but shipping unbuilt like that would have negated the cheapness of it.
Thursday there was school again so I went a little early and studied for my religion test. I thought I did pretty good. It seemed easy but you never know. I just headed home after that.
Friday was cinema and Emily finally brought back my suitcase I lent her on the Tokyo trip. When I got home I tried to do a mock pack and it seems I have just too much. I have too many clothes so I have two options. I can mail some of the stuff back and pay $40-50+ or just throw some of the clothes out. I do have some jeans that are worn past their limit and such so maybe I'll do it. I just hate the idea of paying that kind of money for clothes I might not even want. Anyways I'll check on that.
Saturday was the ryugakusei barbecue and I wasn't quite sure what kind of meat to buy. I've never actually bought meat before so I ended up with some decent pork and some really weird and not too great beef. It was a really hot day but we had this really cool park that was pretty close to campus. There were a lot of bugs that day. Like you were always walking through a swarm of tiny bugs. It was a lot of fun to talk to everyone and I had a good time. After words some of us got dinner at this Italian restaurant in Okamoto then headed off to Karaoke. I couldn't remember a lot of the songs I like to sing so I felt frustrated trying to remember them. Jordan was really drunk at that time and was acting really silly. We had three separate rooms because our group was so big and everyone kept changing rooms so we were probably bothering everyone.
Sunday after I came home and cleaned up a little mess I made outside trying to empty out the spray cans I went out with my new PSP GPS toy. I kind of wish I didn't spend $60 on it because its just so freaking weak. When it works its cool, I was able to connect while on the train and it told me how fast the train was going but sometimes it will take 1 or 2 mins to connect if at all. In a car that might not be a problem but while walking its really annoying. I read online that if you get a metal case for the PSP it helps block some electrical noise that interferes with the device but I can't find one for my 1000 series PSP. It's so hard to find accessories for these game systems because as soon as a new model comes out the old stuff disappears. Well at any rate because of the GPS and the fan made program I am using I was able to find this cool Chinese style temple in Kobe.
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