It sucks. I wasn't even thinking about how much time I have left. Not until someone mentioned it to me. Then it really took me by surprise. Do I really only have like 2 weeks left? It really doesn't feel like that. Like, I know time is ticking but it just doesn't seem that SOON. I hate it. That's why I just want to spend my remaining days with everyone. I understand that it's summer vacation, people have to study, so I'll wait till we can. Besides, my schedule has already started to fill up. I'm already running low on free days, everyone wants to do stuff with me. Karaoke, purikura, etc. So, I'll be busy... not entirely sure that's a good thing.
In any case while at Akko's I typed up 2 blogs. I'll post them up tomorrow. I had so much fun there, I do regret not being able to stay there longer. Also for 3 days of my stay there another foreigner stayed at their house, a lady from Hungary. She's with some business related exchange program called EU. Akko's family does this every year, they take someone from this program for 3 days. The lady from Hungary though also brought along her 4 year old daughter with the program. So, there was me, plus 2 other foreigners in the house. I had to do some translating for the lady since she didn't know Japanese at al that well. She knows English because she said she studied in America for 4 years. I really did have a lot of fun at Akko's though. Explanations in those blogs.
As for today.
Simply... moved.
Today was the last day of school. I gave my goodbye speech. In my goodbye speech I mentioned that I thought going to an all-girls school would definitely not be fun because there were no guys. As soon as I said that EVERYONE laughed. This speech was said to the whole school. Yeah, on stage. Afterwards a few people came up to me and laughed saying how they couldn't believe I said that, that you don't say things like that here (in a good way). I'm glad I got them to laugh though. I see that as an accomplishment. I brought my DS to school today and so did about 4 other people. We all challenged each other at Mario Kart. I was given a party with Andrew (the other American here. He's been here for 4 years with a help-teach-English program and he's leaving the same day as me, I'll probably see him at the airport (haha)). We were given a poster that everyone signed. I have yet to read what everyone wrote. We entered the classroom and party poppers exploded, surprising me (haha). EXILE was played throughout. Once again everyone said a little something just like they did with Pat. I hugged everyone afterwards. And I saw the solar eclipse at school today. Really amazing I thought.
I'm really impressed with Andrew.
He's going home to America but then he's soon going to Taiwan to study Chinese for I think 4 years. It's that just AMAZING? This guy, I'm just thinking about how much he's accomplishing, what he's accomplishing, and I'm so jealous (haha). I want to do the same things as him. My next stop would be South Korea♥ He wants to work for the NGO. Sounds like fun actually. I've met so many people here who really made me think. Made me think of how many opportunities there are out there to do such amazing things, you just need to work hard to get there. I want to accomplish what he is too.
The day ended with the Kyuudou ichi and ni nen-sei and then English Club. At English Club I received a bracelet, a mug, and a... I'm not sure what to call it. It's not a poster... poster board like foldy thing? In any case, everyone wrote inside it.
For Kyuudou the ni-nensei asked for all the san-nensei to meet in the garden area of the school. This is where I was truly moved. I've never seen such people before. This may just be Japanese culture but I seriously don't think EVERY club does this sort of thing. For the san-nensei the ni and ichi-nensei gave us all a picture frame with a picture saying, "Thank you for everything! We will miss you!" Then it had the initials of all the san-nensei. It's just WOW. Then the san-nensei had something for me and Yuka, the ni-nensei going to America this year for an exchange. Photo albums. Yuka's was pretty small, but mine is HUGE and it's completely filled with pictures of just everyone from Kyuudou Club, mostly taken from Kyuudou. The cover has the word LOVE on it and pictures are inserted in them. I... I just don't know what to say. I've never... my words can't possibly explain how much these people have become to me. Kyuudou... everyone is just amazing. Incredible. I don't know how many times I've already flipped though the pages today. Then I received an envelop filled with letters from the ni and ichi-nensei. Short, small letters, but I was still happy. I've read all of those already. I have to take a picture of everything.
Then puri at Yokado. It was raining really bad and was soaked by the time I got there to meet with Tomoka, Asami, and Nojiri. Stupid me had no umbrella.
Then later today (it's like 3 am right now) I'm meeting up with 10 san-nensei from Kyuudou and we're all shooting fireworks at the ocean♥ We're also doing a BBQ too so first we're out shopping, 3 of us that is, at 12ish. Then everyone will probably show up around 3. We're making yakisoba♥ Today, I can't wait. It'll probably be the last time I see everyone together like this again. Probably the last time I'll see about 5 of them. How many times now that I've said this? Joining Kyuudou has seriously been the greatest decision I've made here. These people, my friends, are unbelievable. I don't want to part. Summer vacation isn't supposed to be a sad thing. さよなら。本当に言いたくない。みんなが大好き♥
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