Felt Like ND

What a long week that was! With multiple written exams, a paper due in my Business class, and an oral exam, I was really tired out this week. I've spent a lot of time in the world plaza. The days here are not nearly as cold as they look back home where the thermometer reads in the 20s. Here I can wear a couple shirts and a scarf and I'm ok. I've become a little pessimistic at times, just a mixture of feeling really. I am psyched to be finishing up the semester and going home, but I am not excited at the idea of forgetting so much Japanese within the first couple weeks of being home (which will undoubtedly happen). There are so many friends here that I want to spend more time with but I will not be able to. Sometimes I think about how much closer I could get to my host family with another 5 months. In either case, I am returning home for the holidays.
Last wednesday I layed around the World Plaza at Nanzan, watched Cinderella actually, before heading out to a place callde SushiRo. SushiRo is the cheapest sushi you will ever find in Japan. Every plate is about 99cents and consists of one to 4 pieces depending on the size of the cut of fish that you get. The sushi they say is low grade and the rice is rolled by a machine but I didn't care. They tasted great and I ate about 10plates until I could eat no more. I ate sea urchin for the first time at SushiRo...it was kind of like a goo and not very delicious...so I don't think that i'll eat that ever again. I went with Guy, Naoki, and Nagisa to SushiRo and then Guy and I walked around the town for about an hour after the other two went home. It was a cool conversation and I hope that I have others like it. After that he caught his last bus home and I hopped on a train home. Of course, I stopped at Kanayama before going home. I just really really enjoy Kanayama at night because of all the artists and kids that come out to sing and perform there. It seems that they continue throughout the year and all though the week too because they are still there at this time of the year. It's always a relaxing time.
Today i want to go back to Kanayama to catch some other named bands that will be playing at 5pm at Kanayama Ashita (tomorrow) plaza. After that, I'm going to head over to Nagoya where I will be watching "I am Legend" (just came out here yesterday) with my friends. Speakin of friends, I was not able to meet up with Jin the other day. I thought he was going to meet me at school but he thought that I wa going to meet him at Kanayama. He waited till 7...I went to SushiRo. Other new odd friends include this dude named Ryo who dresses like a pro and speaks spanish pretty well but is absurdly silent and a little creepy after a while. But he's coming to the movies with us today, at least you don't have to talk there hahaha. This will be my first time at a Japanese movie theater so I'll let you know what it's like. I kindof want to do a lot with my remaining time here but...time is limited. After the movie I'll either go to a bar called The Hub or to club ID.
Oh yeah, yesterday I decided to go over to a friends apartment to see what it was like. As far as dinner goes it was the worst decision that I have ever made, I just ate about a dozen gyoza and that was it (besides these sweet, poop-shaped, styrofoam logs) We played SuperSmashBros. and then went to a batting cage where we saw this 14 year old just dominating his cage like a pro, hitting "home runs" every other shot. I, on the other hand, missed 3/4 of my 50 tries, and hit only one home run. It was cool though because it was packed, I really got a feel for how much the Japanese love their baseball.
I'm on the 10th One Piece book now, I think it might be the last one that I read here before leaving (I'm going to try really hard to get to the 11th one!) My mom here made another hat for me (how?) I'm really missing the snow. It's very strange to even think that Christmas is what? only 10, 11 days away? I seem to have lost track of time with the lack of snow here and the general loss of meaning that Christmas has over here. I can't wait to get home, drink some egg-nog, listen to christmas music and watch christmas movies, and cuddle up on the couch! Oh, and insulation in the walls, I'm definitely looking forward to that.
Tomorrow I'm going to write my paper for my history class. With that finished I will have finished half of my finale exams for this year (Business & History). I still have a Japanese Culture and of course 日本語 to go.
With that, until next time!

Getting used to sitting crossed legged.