Hey all,
Well I'll make this a short post, since tomorrow's will be longer. This weekend was the graduation ceremony. Everyone walked up on to the stage, got their little diploma holders (the diploma wasn't even inside them) and there were some hackneyed speeches about how important this experience will be to the rest of our lives, a song by the a capella group (Sam was in it!) and that was about it. Oh, and the food. In fact, my host family only came for the food. You see, I thought we were going to go to the ceremony together, which is why when they said they were leaving at a certain time, I made sure I was ready by that time. Only later I found out that if I left at that time, then I would miss half the ceremony and only get there in time for the food, which is what they were planning to do. But by the time I realized this, it was too late. So I missed half the ceremony, but only the boring roll-call part, so it was ok. But stil...
All that put aside, the food was certainly worth it, some of the best I've had in Japan. After we finished eating, my host family left and I went to the lounge to hang out with Haley and Shin. We changed out of our formal clothes (the dress code was formal, which ran the gamut from dresses to kimonos to turbans to monk outfits) and just chilled for a while, waiting. This is because Haley and I were invited to Kim's (yes, there were FIVE Kims beside me) birthday party, which happened to be at a karaoke place. This other Kim and I are hardly the best of frends, but hey, an all night karaoke party? Who can pass that up?
So, Haley and I met up with everyone at the station and had a quick dinner at a nearby restaurant, at which I didn't order anything cause I'm running out of money. Then we went to the place, called Jumbo Karaoke. We got a really big room for 15 people (cause that's how many we were) and started singing! Of course, I immediately brought out the sheet i had prepared beforehand of karaoke songs and began ordering them up.
I sang all anime songs, of course, which a surprising number of people knew. I'm not used to people being anime fans. But poor Kim must have felt out of the loop because she doesn't watch anime at all. But I stayed all night! Till my voice was dead and gone.
I think though, that people who talk while other people are singing are being rude, and also people who have bad voices that sing (unwanted) with other people are also being rude. I was doing this really cool song when someone who couldnt' sing a tune had to join in and mess me all up. I hate that. But yeah, other than that it was cool. I can say I've done an all nighter.
Unfortunatley, during that night Sam had to leave. It was a sad goodbye, but I know I'll see here soon, being as she lives in my hometown.
Today I went to to the Touji flea market, but seeing as they're about to kick me out of the computer lab, I'll update you on that tomorrow.
Tata for now!
As always, comments are appreciated.
