The last two days were fairly uneventful. I said goodby to my very drunk German friend at night, and to my suprise found the uw girl awake at 7am eating breakfast. I meat Kate's parents and we went to Nara together. It was an interesting trip because I didn't have anything planned and I didn't know Nara at all. We did see the biggest Buddha in Japan and wandered around the nara national museum for a while. We meat up with Michael and had lunch. An uninteresting Oyakudonburi. On the way to the station I finally found some Mellon fanta for Simon. Sadly I also lost the walking stick that I climbed Mt.Fuji with. The stick would have been hard to carry back so I guess its alright.
At night I slept in Michaels home stay family's house. Its in a small town called Komada. About an hour by train outside of Kyoto. The house, or actually houses, there were 2 if them, were very nice. Apparently a lot of the tables inside could be national treasures of in a museum somewhere.
The family was great. The dad worked selling medical computer equipment to hospitals. He didn't talk much, but apparently was very funny when he did. I couldn't really understand him. The mom was great. She spoke English, but didn't like to. As a result I could practice my Japanese, but when I didn't know how to say something I could switch back into English for help. There was also a 26 year old sister, who looked like she was 20. Apparently she worked in an office somewhere. I learned from another Japanese girl that I meat with Mathias named Iya that those girls are called OL or office lady.
It was really cool to be forced to speak Japanese. I had a lot of trouble understanding, but I learned a lot very quickly and remembered a lot of my old sentence structures. It had been a very long day of trekking about so I got really tired and went to bed early.
The final day of my trip was super low key. We woke up late had breakfast and were planning on going to a flee market at a Temple. However Michael decided he wanted to go to a get to know you party for Doshida students. I gladly followed him. The kids I met singing Karaoke were really cool, so I figured the rest would be as well. I wasn't disipointed in that regard. However it wasn't exatly the way I wanted to spend my last day. We just played language games all day. At night I went shopping for some final gifts to bring back to the states. It took a bit longer than expected. \
I finally got back to my house at 7:30ish after michael had finished all him homework due on Monday. We had dinner and talked for a bit. It turned out the dad had gone to Seoul on business trips a few times. We chatted about that for a bit, then I decided it would be a good idea to pack.
On my way to packing I got a bit sidetracked my Keyan and Lars asking for a 6 hour itinerary to see all of Seoul. I quickly wrote one up for them and went back to packing. Then went to bed.
The only notable thing to happen today is the fact that my backpack went from being regular sized to oversized and that I was .5kg off having to pay an extra 100$ for my bags. Dogged a bullet there :)
Anyway I'll be back in the states soon so unless I think of more things to write about this will be my last entry. I'll probably post some reflections in the next few days, but other than that this is it. Good By.
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