There’s only 18 days left until I am back in the US. I cannot wait to get out of JCMU and Japan. I love Japan, but I just need to go home. Some developments of late:

-Yesterday we actually had a thunderstorm, lightning and all. This is only the second time in Japan that I have experienced a thunderstorm. In some areas other than Hikone, there was also hail, and apparently many people had never seen hail before. Strange..

-Finally got my trip refund back today, which allowed me to send out another box back to the US via ship. This makes me nervous, because the last box that I sent out (on January 31), didn’t get to the US until 7 weeks later, with a gaping hole on one side. Luckily, nothing fell out and I don’t think anything got destroyed. So hopefully box #2 will fare better…

-There are only 2 tests left in Japanese class. Naturally, one of them is the final, which will cover 3 chapters, 9 dialogues, and 5 reading sections. Oh I’m just sooo looking forward to it.

-A somewhat planned trip to spend a night in a monastery with some other students has been cancelled, so I still have 2 uses left on my Seishun 18 ticket. I don’t know where I’m going to go with them, but at least one of them has to go towards looking at sakura….

-I know that more has happened…..but I can’t remember….maybe I’ll add more later…..