natsuyasumi 夏休み

I'm finally done with finals! It's officially the start of my summer vacation here in Japan!
Last day of finals was on Wednesday (8/3). To celebrate as a class we decided to have dinner with an all-you-can-eat (tabehoudai)「食べ放題」at a restaurant called "Sweets Ninja". It was my second time eating there. Prices are actually really reasonable considering that all-you-can-eat restaurants are around the 2000yen price range. We only payed 1400yen per person.

It was fun! Everyone from my class went but sadly only 2 out of the 5 teachers we have went. But I hope to go out with all my teachers at least while I'm here! They're all friendly and cool to hang out with.

Class picture! 

Bottom (L to R): Lauren (アメリカ人 american She's from Pittsburgh!), Yonezawa (先生 sensei Our Monday teacher. She was our essay teacher.), Matsumoto (先生 sensei Our Tuesday teacher. He was our conversations teacher.), Shin (中国人 chinese), Chun (台湾人 taiwanese), Bunkei (台湾人 taiwanese), Kan (韓国人 korean)

Top (L to R): Moh (台湾人 taiwanese), Chien (台湾人 taiwanese), Caleb (ニュージランド New Zealand), me! (I'm from America but I'm considered ハワイ人 Hawaiian)

Picture with my two sensei's!

Matsumoto sensei really REALLY reminds me of the dad from Totoro!

What do you think?!

On our way back home, me and 3 other classmates passed an arcade and decided to take purikura! Wish our whole class did but we already parted ways to go home.

Now that school is over with for now, I hope to blog more!!! I really want to document my stay here as much as possible. I have a feeling that won't get started probably till next week. There are a lot of farewell parties for the students that have already been here for a year. I have one tomorrow in which I'll be doing a short dance with another friend. We're going to be dancing to Girl's Generation - Gee in our kigurumis! I only learned this dance since last night but so far, a small preview!

Don't mind my room! Lots of boxes because I'm letting a friend stay with me for a bit. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScIpxucdmo0 <--- link to the Girls Generation MV

Okay! Off to practice some more~