going home orientation for one not going home, rare method of extension

room pre dinner - Today cloudy and light rain. Yesterday hot and sunny. Yesterday I went to a going away party for the IES students in the heart of Nagoya. I was at a restaurant and I was so stuffed afterwards!

Before the party was our going home orientation where we were briefed about stuff like reverse culture shock and the like. I am not going home though so I just politely listened. Listening to people talk about going home and how they felt about their Japan experience was sort of strange b/c my experience is far from over.

I talked to our program director about this summer and next semester and he said that only one other student had ever extended from the spring to fall semester (most do fall to spring). He said that it had been ten years ago and it had been another University of Rochester student like me!! I thought that was really cool.

Today went fine. It was the last day of official classes. Now it's finals time. Joy.