60 students came, and there are 6 people in each group. We talked in English for one hour and Japanese in the next. It was a lot harder than I thought to try and carry a conversation in Japanese with people I just met, but since this will be a once in two weeks thing, I'm sure I'll get lots of practice!
Afterwards a group of appr. 20 people stuck around to go for dinner. There aren't many restaurants that can seat our large group all together at once so we went to Saizerya.
It was a lot of fun, and we ended up continuing our topics from the language exchange which was mainly on the love/relationship topic (First Love, How you'd like to be proposed to..etc). We pried quality information out of a few people and even got to facebook stalk some of their past loves. I love how open everyone is in Japan...
We even got into a deep conversation with one exchange student about a tragedy he experienced back in America when he was in middle school and things got emotional pretty fast. I really wish that someday I could be the person that can console people going through hard times without struggling for words. A pat in the back and a few words were all I could muster.
Our dishes came out, lighter topics were introduced, and at 10:30 pm a lot of us headed home. A few people still wanted to go out for a drink, and they convinced me to stick around for awhile longer. It was mostly Japanese students and another exchange student and I. We went to the Cantina and stayed until 1 am. By that time the last train had already stopped running so people were desperately messaging their friends to see who's house they could stay over at. My dorm was only 10 minutes away but I seized the opportunity to have a little sleepover with my friends for the night.
On our way there, there was apparently a pretty big earthquake (5.0-ish) but since we were walking we didn't feel anything.
There are no working lights at our friends place so we bought candles as souvenirs.
I felt like we were in a weird cult
It was basically like our own karaoke room. We played club music and christmas music and sang for...3 hours?! We also had the usual sleepover conversation too, and I got a few good tips on how to flirt :P
Not like I'm gonna use any of them, flirting just feels so unnatural to me..
I think we slept at around 4:30, and when I woke up I couldn't feel my cheeks it was so cold. 6 people ended up sleeping at my friend's place and we shared one futon mat and two blankets. In the middle of wintertime and no heater on. It's a wonder I didn't get a cold.
That morning I had my last day of class before Winter Vacation. It was brutal. My professor has too much energy for me to keep up with her at 10:40 am..
But here it is, my beloved vacation!
The entire 4 months I've been here have I already felt like a vacation on its own, but boy I'm glad this christmas break is here.
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