Since coming to Japan I have met such wonderful people. Seems like just last week I was packed and ready to come to Japan, but now I am packed and ready to leave Japan. I am sad the day has come where I have to write my last post in Japan.

From the silly Americans I met my first semester, to my crazy and wonderful floor mates, I have met so many people! I've been able to travel around Japan with my friends too! I was able to cook and hang out with my floor mates, go to bath and onsen and many other things!

Thank you Naruho for letting me stay with you over summer break! I love cooking dinner with you! Kanako, let's go to Boston, then Hong Kong, then... Japan, then we can get you a handsome cat. Good luck with your studies in Lithuania! All of my floormates are all so cute and so sweet!

I met many wonderful friends from my Japanese class! We took a trip to Yufuin for our quarter break! It was so much fun to eat at a snoopy cafe! Uri and Chan are such nice people and I want to visit them again! Please come to America and I will show you around Boston, Uri!

Then my sweet and wonderful host family who took me in many times, fed me wonderful food and let me hide under a kotatsu for the winter, I have so many wonderful memories. I went out on many trips with my host family, went to the movies, had wonderful foods and tried many different things! They helped me experience Japanese culture! 

Thank you Mai, and my host family for the wonderful memories we made together! My host family has truly become my second family. I couldn't have asked for nicer people to help me get acquainted to life in Japan. There was sometimes a language barrier but we were still able to communicate and have fun!

Even when I was weird and too lazy to pack, my wonderful friend helped me pack! Good luck in America Kouki! I will visit Yokohama when I come to Japan!

I have met people from all around the world, from Finland, to Uzbekistan, to Indonesia too, and they are all wonderful people. I hope I will get to see everyone again, maybe in their home countries! Please come to America everyone!

It's been so wonderful to look back at all the wonderful memories I made with everyone. I faced many hardships in Japan, but not nearly as many bad things as good things. Living in Japan has been a wonderful experience and I WILL COME BACK!

I go home in one week and my finals have ended.

I am making sure to see all my friends before I leave. I've met so many wonderful people while here and I am so happy!

I went to a farewell party for my Japanese Professor whom I've had for two semesters now. Although sometimes he was strict, he is definitely one of my favorite professors throughout my college years and my favorite professor at APU. He kindly invited us to his home and we cooked and had pizza! (Haven't had pizza in a while!!)

My Japanese class has always been a small bunch. This semester we were less than ten and everyone was from different countries. (Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Finland, Uzbekistan and South Korea.) We have become very close friends and I hope I can visit them all again one day!

My professor will no longer be teaching in APU so we are his last students! I wish him luck in the future and with his move! (Let's keep in contact!) I also wish everyone else good luck in their studies and future jobs!

I may or may not have cried when the party was over...