So school ended on Friday after a hard test, and we had a
graduation ceremony. The test was about
2 hours long and I studied far too much for it and probably did just fine. After that we had a speaking test or ‘interview’
in which I didn’t study for at all and just walked in because I really didn’t
care anymore – I’m done with school. I
was confident in my speaking ability since I talked in Japanese with my host
family every day that I was there. And
as I thought, I did just fine and the teacher complimented me on how good I
have become. Only, after that I had to
immediately rush home as fast as possible as I had not a minute to waste before
the graduation ceremony. I didn’t have
any of my fancy clothes with me which I needed for this.
So I
had to take a train home, change, and get back all within like 40 minutes. Luckily since my mother drove me back to
school, I made it exactly on time to the minute. After that we had the graduation ceremony
which my host mother recorded so I have that.
It wasn’t anything unusual, just a normal ceremony. If it is normal to go to a ceremony on the
other side of the world for graduation from a foreign language program.
I received
my graduation certificate and headed to an after graduation party witjavascript:void(0);h my
family. Only, I couldn’t really do much
at the party because I was feeling really nauseous. When we got home later I told my host family
that I probably just had too much coffee and mistook the can of regular coffee
for espresso. Only later on it turned
out that it wasn’t just coffee, but that I had a very high temperature. I was getting sick right before I had to
leave. I had a fever of about 103 for
the day of graduation and the day after, but my very nice host family went out
to the store and got some medicine for me to take. I did end up taking the medicine which was
unfortunate because before we even decided to get any I was telling them about
how in America people take medicine for just about everything, too often. And that I like sicknesses to just go away
naturally. But the fever did get too
high for that. Although from our talks
it seems to me that japan takes medicine less often than America, which doesn’t
surprise me since there are a lot of prescriptions that would be illegal to
bring in to japan. I had looked up such
legality information before entering the country.
So, the
day of the graduation ceremony I didn’t do much because I wasn’t feeling very
energetic. The day after I was feeling
well enough to do the suggested plan which was to go up to the top of a local
mountain and see the night view.
Unfortunately the mountain was so foggy we could not see more than a few
feet in front of the car on the drive up.
It was extremely dangerous. So,
since we couldn’t see anything when we got to the top we just left
instead. We ended up playing with
fireworks for the night as a backup plan and that was fun.
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