Water Works

And so it ends... or is it begins? Well, last "full" day(and school day) in Fukuoka and since I decided to go to kyudo one last time today, we had a "party" for me last night. Omoto-san(Otousan's coworker/okaasan's friend) takes me home from kyudo everytime I go, so she was invited. Okaasan's Korean friend (who speaks fluent English, Japanese and Korean and is learning Chinese right now) also came. Then it was the rest of the family expect otousan because he had a court hearing or something(he's the lawyer... not the criminal) and he decided to stay downtown so he wouldn't have to rush. We had lots of good food and after dinner, I scrambled to get my speech in my head to some degree. Didn't work.

Yesterday Shibata-sensei worked like mad with me to help me finish my speech. We worked a little too hard on it because when it was done... it was 3 pages long and over 10minutes long. ^.^;; Yesterday was a really busy day, since not only did I have to finish my speech, but I also had pottery afterschool. Luckly, Shibata-sensei had a class till 5pm and pottery ends around then, so it was fine. We cut as much as we could and got it down to about 10 minutes. She then gave me a drive to the train station and wished me good luck with the speech since she couldn't make it today.

The speech went decently.... I think. I'm not sure if they understood half of what I said, because I was too nervous and I forgot when the waterworks started, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't even at the end of the 2nd page. I looked like I was cold when I was waiting outside the hall for everyone to go in because I was so nervous. I started a little shaky... and I started crying pretty badly during the speech and had to stop because I couldn't read past the tears that had built up. I'm sure I made lots of pronounciation and tone mistakes, but overall it went well. Imaizumi-okaasan came to listen and after the speech she came over to me all teary and said something sentimental (seeing her cry made me start crying again so I lost concentration on what she was saying) and wouldn't let go of my hand. So far, I've got some goodbye presents from Momoko and Nanako(wasn't expecting any from them) and now I'm hoping I have enough beads(for making crosses/the only thing I remember how to make by memory) and sticker pictures to give out as makeshift thank you presents. Its funny, how I have stuff to give to Sasaki-san and Yanaga-san, even though Yanaga-san isn't here today and I really don't think Sasaki-san was touched about me mentioning us going to Fukuoka Dome for the "event" (didn't say cosplaying, because in Japan, you don't really tell the world stuff like that...its "embarassing")

Debating what kind of reaction I would get if I gave Sasaki-san and Yanaga-san rather "big" presents and I don't give everyone else that I mentioned in my speech presents. Especially Ai-chan and them... Its not like I didn't want to not give them something... but time ran out, and it just so happens that Yoshie-chan gave me a poster of Harukanaru (the series that my friends cosplayed from) which would make a good present for Yanaga-san. And I have a Nightmare before Chirstmas folder that I used for a week or two that would most likely be better suited for Sasaki-san. Don't know how I'm going to get that poster to Yanaga-san though.. because she isn't here today (dangit, I wanted to take some pictures with her and of course, I would have liked to know how she would have reacted to my mentioning about our "outings") Well, maybe I'll be lucky and she'll come after lunch or something... although I think I'm just being too hopeful.

I think I've rambled enough... not even half way through the day and I've already rambled a days worth. This is most likely the last time I'll be blogging from Japan so see you guys in.... wow, basically a day! Gotta go finish making crosses! Ja.