So I realized that over the last few weeks there really wasn't much going on, I haven't gone to Akita City, There were no field trips, I think my somewhat negative mood was due to this. Last night I attended Nagano-Sensei, the nursing school teacher. Unfortunately, none of her students were there but there but I did get to hang out with some International students from AIU: Joanna from US, Evelyn from Singapore, Seok from Korea, and one more guy whose name I can't remember from Taiwan. I also got to meet some ALT's (assistant language teachers that teach in schools) and a lot of Japanese people overall. We got to eat some food and drink Sake (Alcoholic drink from Rice) and Chuhai (Fruit cocktail/beer) which was quite sweet.
One thing I will say about a Japanese dinner party, there were about 40 people there, the floor was heated and everyone was sitting on the floor. This really fixes the problem in American and Europe of never having enough chairs when you have people over. Hey, you can have as many people as you like as long as there is enough floor space which was quite full. Nagano-Sensei also gave us some pictures from when we met the nursing students, I know have the only 2 paper photos from this trip (everything else is Digital). Overall, however, except for the light headache from the alcohol I feel better now then I've felt in weeks. I believe next Saturday I might go to Akita city to the Aikido dojo to watch a black belt test, and in 2 weeks possibly if I feel ready, for my own test for 5th kyu.
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