Penultimatation
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Penultimatation
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Last Thursday was the last meeting for the Osaka group and we decided to hold it as Chez Jose, the Mexican restaurant down the street. We had a good time talking about Japan and eating chips and dip. I at about two and a half baskets of chips myself, maybe even three. All I know is that the dip was really good and they kept bringing out more chips once the baskets got low. At the end of the meal (Mmm, enchilada…) I made sure there were no chips left in any of the baskets on the table. I have no idea where they all went because as we were wandering around the Market of Choice next door I kept thinking about how much I wanted some ice cream…
Saturday was the end-of-year party for our Japanese class: a barbeque at Suttmeier-sensei’s house. After figuring out who was going to go and who had a car and how many people could fit in it… Sensei-s house was cool with a little creek in the back yard and a whole bunch of flowering trees with the petals falling off in the breeze and falling like they do in the movies… It was perfect weather and we sat in the sun on the grass talking about moss and flooding creeks. And the food was great there too. There were more chips, though I mostly stayed away from them. At the end we killed a Piñata… That was lots of fun that involved lots of spinning, shouting “now!” at people, throwing staplers and trying to explain to Eri-sensei what we were doing.
After the barbeque I came back to campus and sat in the sun (again) on the grassy knoll outside Pamplin reading “Japanese cultural printed media” (okay, it was a comic book). I took my backpack and some homework but I didn’t get to it. Two of my roomies walked by on the way to dinner and I followed them. Like always, I dropped my bag inside the door of the cafeteria. I managed to remember to pick it up again come Monday at lunch…
That night we made truffles in Platt (the chocolate kind, not the mushroom kind…). We had coffee truffles, vanilla truffles, and dark chocolate truffles covered in a variety of white, milk, or dark chocolate coating and decorated with walnuts, coffee grounds, white or milk chocolate shavings or chopped up Andes candies. That is a lot of chocolate.
Sunday I went to Archery! Fun times. I found out I can draw a bow provided it’s at least fifteen pounds lighter than my own. As for mine, I can draw it twice… But I had fun and I hit the yellow quite a few times so all is well! As Cassie put it “I want to make the pointy stick hit the colorful circles. The lighter the color, the better!” And I didn’t skin my elbow with the string either!
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…One week later I realized this is still on my desktop and not online… So I continue:
Last week was uneventful… Oh well.
Finals week found me with not a lot to do besides pack to go home. I found myself in the lounge with my sketchbook more often than not keeping company with my hard-at-work roommates and floor mates. Ran wrote a 20 page research essay for one of her finals and Erika a twelve, both of which they made me look over and revise, I suspect, as a form of jealous revenge for not having any essays of my own to write. But all is well because, as compensation, I was gifted three exquisite truffles and two bottles of ramune. Mmm… Chocolate and soda… I can go home happy now.
My own finals, while they did not entice me to stay up until all hours of the morning writing, were stressful enough. >.> Because we all know that sitting around and waiting for the test is as bad as sitting in front of a teacher as he grades your paper… <.< Okay, I got off light. Real light. My final Tae-Kwon-Do test went off without a hitch (I even came out sporting a few beautiful new bruises ^.^ ) and the final in Japanese Conversation was a party! Well, we ate lot’s of good Japanese snacks and talked. I call that a party.
The real finals started on Monday with (for me) Linguistics. It went fast enough and there were really no problems, same with my Spanish final the next day. The final final (haha…) was Wednesday morning, 8:30 am, Japanese 202. I spent two and a half hours on that test and I was only the second person done. That is what I call a long final. I came back to my room extremely elated that classes were finally over, and thinking in a language not my own ‘~’
But that’s all part of the past now! It will be a little over eight months before I see this campus again after I leave here tomorrow aboard a shuttle bound for the airport with several bags stuffed full of untold amounts of… junk, probably. I look forward to my time in Japan with an eagerness immeasurable. I depart now with a final bit of excavation from a previous blog that I find humorous:
Friend is a Four Letter Word Believe it or not, we actually had this discussion a few days ago. I have another “four” letter word: “5!|\|@L$” No, I don’t feel like translating. Enough of you should get it to make it worth it. I shall speak not of this subject again. It has been worked to death and stressed out by everyone else it doesn’t need me adding to the load. I do again profess my joy of the finality of the situation. ^_--
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