It was going to be a tour by an alumni!
Guess who slept in?
The tour was at 9 AM, and I just couldn't wake up for that.
So instead, I woke up at 11 or 12.
Demetri woke up around the same time too.
I'm always ahead of him though.
You know the drill.
Go to konbini.
Get food.
Get back.
Pretty much this is what happened from 12-5:
Watch Olympics.
Talk shit.
Eric came into our room somewhere in that time frame, I can't remember exactly when.
At 5, we were to meet Kengo!
One last time.
He wanted to give us something from him and Miyu (Miyu was gone, she's in New Zealand now).
Me, Eric, Kevin, Nathan, Demetri, Josh, Shunya, Maaike, and Alison came down to meet him.
After we were sure that nobody else was coming, Kengo revealed a bag.
What he took out of the bag was something super awesome.
This was something that he and Miyu both put effort into.
I don't think I can accurately describe with sentences, or paragraphs for that matter, how this made me feel.
We couldn't thank Kengo enough for this priceless gift.
The problem was...who was going to keep it?
It wasn't like we all lived in the same place back at home.
After some debate, however, we decided we would give it to Professor Hall.
It seemed pretty fair.
Kengo said he was free at the time so we decided to do something.
We couldn't really think of anything so we decided to ask Kengo what HE wanted to do.
He didn't know either.
So someone suggested we go to a park.
With no better ideas, we went.
Demetri and I talked with Kengo a lot while we walked to the park.
It took a while to get there.
It seemed like kind of a lame thing to do with our (potentially) last day with Kengo, but he seemed ok with it.
We got to a small park near a river.
Remember the river from DAY 0 at the high school?
Same river but just further to the side.
We spent some time hanging around the park doing stupid shit like going down slides and climbing trees.
It was pretty fun and I got some sick photos out of it.
It was kind of weird just to hang around an obscure area like that so we walked along the river into the more familiar parts that I walked in on DAY 0.
...and then the not-so-familiar parts.
We were headed back in the direction of the hotel but we wanted to do more things with Kengo. Everyone agreed that we were all sort of hungry so we decided to go back to that one yakitori place (the first group dinner we had here).
On the way back I passed by this insane parking job.
By the time we went to yakitori, our group was reduced to me, Kengo, Demetri, Nathan, Maaike, and Eric.
We ordered a decent amount of food.
Overall, another fun time.
I paid for Kengo's portion just cuz he's that kickass and I wanted to say thanks like that.
Like I said before, this was potentially our last meeting with Kengo.
He wasn't sure if he was coming to the farewell dinner tomorrow and said it was a maybe.
Busy man.
So Kengo and I have this inside joke with each other involving a high five, but it's kind of complicated to explain here (if you ask me when I get back I'll tell you then).
I posed with him with a high five.
Fuck yeah.
Awesome dude.
Even if this is the last time I see him this trip, I will do my very best to make sure it isn't the last time I see him ever.
I WILL come back to Japan.
Back at the hotel was back to reality.
We had two essays due soon so I half worked and half messed around and watched Olympics and stuff.
Tomorrow is the last official day of class and the farewell dinner so that the program comes to a close.
It's been an awesome time here, but I'm not quite done with Japan yet.
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