After doing karaoke all night, I am properly exhausted. Got home and into bed about 6:30, and promptly fell asleep. I had the air-conditioning going. Modern electronic devices are fantastic. Love 'em. Can't imagine living in Japan without them. Woke up about 11 feeling refreshed. Had a lazy brunch and slothed around for a few hours. While I was shaving my legs I got a cramp in my calf so strong and painful I literally fell over. It still hurts.
The shock of the day was that we had to be at the school by 2:45 for the closing ceremony today. I strongly recall people saying 3:30. That's when it actually started, but they wanted us seated earlier. I learned this at about 1:30. Didn't give me much time to get ready, considering the hour-long commute, and by then I was sweating again because I'd turned off the air-con. Still, managed to get there with a little time to spare. Hung out with Tamarra and her host family for a little while.
The closing ceremony itself was rather dull. I was surprised at the lack of formal dress from quite a few students. I understand maybe a plaid shirt or dark jeans, but a t-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap aren't really appropriate attire. But yeah, got my little certificate saying I attended Waseda for spring term of 2012. We had a little get-together afterwards with some food and company and carousing.
As things wound down I started to really realize that this was probably the last time I'd be seeing a lot of people. That kinda brought down my mood a little. Kenna kidnapped Tamarra and I to go to Ike. We looked around in Tokyu Hands for a little while and I managed to buy more things. I just gotta leave my money at home. This is getting ridiculous. We went to Starbucks and tried their weird, Japanese summer drinks. Very refreshing, if strange tasting. I had something with lime in it. Don't remember the name. Not bad. Just strange.
And home. I turns out that Rio brought home a cake yesterday, but since I was out Karaoke all night, I missed out. They saved me a piece and I enjoyed that tonight. They have a weird custom of putting fruit and jelly on their cakes. The moose thing was very tasty, and grapes were fine. The pear was a little strange. All in all, tasty cake. The show we watched was about men in Japan making things for their partners for their weddings. Like, a guy made a paper flower bouquet for his wife. Apparently this is a crazy strange idea, to the point of 「気持ち悪い」 I can't believe that it's soooo strange here. Japan has some strong older ideas of gender roles that make me feel a little awkward sometimes.
Less than four days.
edit: There was just another tiny earthquake. Seems like Japan doesn't want to let me go without scaring the bejeezus out of me at least one more time.
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