It was really nice to have a normal, quiet week after all my traveling. I'm also back to updating on Mondays again! I'll also most likely be going back to shorter posts for the next few weeks.
I left off last week on Tuesday with my dinner and karaoke night with Caol. The next night, Wednesday, Leah came over for dinner and we had a last, little birthday celebration since we hadn't seen each other for our birthday's over the weekend. We sat and talked and had a great time. Thursday I went to Orange Door to visit Kikumi and Friday I went to Megan's to watch movies.
On Saturday I tried a new food for the first time, loco moco. Loco moco is a popular dish in Hawaii with rice, hamburger, fried egg, and gravy. I went shopping with Megan in the morning and helped her cook before everyone came over. We made the hamburgers and gravy from scratch and everyone loved it! We all sat around the 炬燵 (kotatsu, heated table) and talked and watched movies until dinner time. We all decided to go out in Kokura together, but none of us were hungry yet, so we decided to sing a bit before dinner. We went to Carnival Karaoke for a few hours and then headed over to 鉄なべ (Tetsunabe) for some gyoza. We went to one more place, Bob's, after for another drink and some more karaoke before finally all heading home.
Sunday I stayed home and cleaned most of the morning, knowing I'd be out that afternoon. I left home a little after 1:00 PM for Move Hall. There was a Japanese speech contest going on and Leah was a guest speaker! She had wanted to participate, but it was only open to language students at the YMCA. I went to go see her and her speech was fantastic. The speeches in the contest were all really well written and performed, too. Our supervisor, Ms. Tsuruta, had also come and she treated us to coffee and snacks afterwards. Leah and I got dinner after that and stayed out talking for a while before leaving.
This week should be another quiet week. I'm back at Shinozaki and these are my last full two weeks here. I'm really sad to be leaving, but I'm excited to make the most of my last class time here!
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