D組は最高！！

Yesterday was the last day of JLI. Jae gave some of us toys from the crane game at the arcade, since he won a whole bunch in the morning because he forgot class started late. Mine is this pink bird with a helmet on...I don't really know what it is. We had our last speeches in class, which went really well. Michael gave the absolute best speech in the history of all Japanese classes I've ever taken. He basically took as many of the grammar points we learned and talked about why our class is so great. (And included all the class jokes we have.) I'd reproduce it, but it's really not funny unless 1) you were in our class, 2) you speak Japanese, 3) you know our textbook. We were all laughing so hard...he had me very, very close to tears. After class, there was a farewell party for everyone in JLI. So-ky and Seth did a manzai (Japanese humor skit). So-ky doing, "そんなの関係ねぇー！" was hilarious. (It's a line from a Japanese comedian.)


After the party, everyone went back to Kameido, including Jae, who's never been there before. We didn't do very well on the final, and Jae burned his test in order to forget, which was fun to watch. We helped Hank move all his boxes to the convenience store to send them to his permanent housing, which looked really funny. There was a long line of foreigners carrying boxes...very interesting. We got our entire class together to go to Ueno to drink and eat with one of our teachers. I tried basashi for the first time at that restaurant. Guess what basashi is? Horse sashimi. Horse! It tasted weird. I don't think I particularly like it, but it wasn't nasty either.


Following that, we went to Karaoke Kan to sing. (Which included Hank singing K and Naotaro Moriyama again. =D) It was pretty funny to watch our teacher sing his heart out. After a couple of hours at karaoke, we parted ways with our sensei and almost decided to stay out and go to Tsukiji, but not enough people were up for it. So we took our train back and said bye to Jae, who's the only one who doesn't live in the same place as us. We spent a few more hours walking around and eating ice cream, which was basically just because none of us wanted to go home and we all wanted to hang out longer. Tomorrow, Hank leaves for Taiwan and after that everyone will start going their separate ways. I initially didn't like that I'd have to be around so many EAP kids at the beginning of the program, but now I think just the way Michael does, D class is the best! I'm really gonna miss these people. But as Venodh says, and Hank translated: 生きるために生きなさい. Live for the sake of living. It's time to move on. JLI is finally over.


D class is the best! D組は最高！