So anyway it started at 4:30 and I wasn't sure where it was so I went to the international office and asked. Then I found all the frenchmen, Seghir, Jeremy, & Pierre (who looked a little down) and we found seats together to watch. Liu (china), and Bonglim & Yung Eun (korea) wore their traditional outfits as did Karolina (germany), but everybody else just wore regular clothes. The presentations were very good, except I thought Karolina's was a little too much like an encyclopedia reference for Germany rather than something she liked about her country (too many stats).
Afterwards we went to Rakugo which is a type of comedy show in Japan where a person pretends to be several characters in a dialogue all while he is sitting down. The one we did was in english instead of japanese like they normall do it but it was pretty good I thought. And after that there was a buffet style party for the end of international week in which everybody got to go stuff themselves on yakisoba, gyoza, and tenpura among other things. They also served cocktail drinks in cans & beer which I thought was a little strange. I mean they are a school! When we got there we had to sign in because they wanted to know how many people showed up for next year's planning & also they had some japanese people doing a traditional drum session which was pretty cool. Jeremy & Karolina even got to try it out.
While we were eating the school's cheerleaders decided to give us a show (so slutty! seriously.) and then they decided to make mochi so we all got to go up and help pound the rice down. That thing is soooo heavy. You don't even know. But Ren was like a demented lumberjack, he just kept pounding away and his hair was flying everywhere... so funny. We also got to try traditional japanese pancake which involves mashed potatos and bonito flakes. It was pretty good with some mayo and teriyaki sauce on it. They also had a calligraphy booth set up so we did some more of that & it was the regular kind. Mao told us that we could buy our own supplies to do it at the hyaku en shop & Alex was really excited about it. :) I think we might have to do some of our own calligraphy here in the dorm. I wonder if you can do it in non-black ink? Is that a japanese thing to do?
The party broke up about 9:00 pm and I went with An & her sister Gyung jin (I learned her name!!!) back to their place to watch Always on TV. We also had snacks like cheese & chips, and also some white wine. I only had one glass but An ended up drinking the whole rest of the bottle plus a beer. She cannot hold her liquor seriously! Lol. She kept saying that she wasn't drunk, and that she 'liked alex but knew he had a girlfriend' and then after the movie was over at 11 Barney, Eagle, and Alex showed up (they had gone out after party) and Jin & Barney (dating) went to his room while Eagle & Alex stayed with us. So for like the next hour and a half I sat on the floor with alex putting together a 1000 piece puzzle while An kept slapping my back (hard btw) and telling Alex that she liked 'somebody'. He knew she liked him & kept trying to explain to her that he had a girlfriend. Finally I'd had enough and told her I was going to bed & Alex left with me (afraid to be alone w/her I think) and he went to hang out with Eagle downstairs.
So all in all it was a pretty good day but it ended on a strange note. I mean... I left because I was tired of getting hit on the back but also because I was exhausted because I'd had a test on friday & Gian kept me up until like 2:30 working on his powerpoint presentation (no computer) so I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the night before. Meh.
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