I have spent cumulatively a lot of time in Japan at this point and have finally fully adjusted to this trip, overcoming travel bugs and jet lag. Last night I was out late celebrating Anthony’s Birthday with friends, so this morning I slept in. I purposely had no plans for today, as I usually make that with the friends I meet that day when we have OMU activities.
Due to
sleeping in, I went ahead and got a quick breakfast from family mart consisting
of “fami chiki” (Family Mart Fried Chicken) and a Red Bull. After that I proceeded
to lead a group of my friends to the Sugimoto Campus, because they would rather
follow me than try to do it alone. Once there, we listened to many
presentations. The first presentation was from an OMU student I hadn’t known
well, was really good talking about life in Arizona. I have not lived in
Arizona my whole life, so it was interesting for me to see the differences
between that and the Midwest. The other two were from Daniel and 3 of my
Japanese friends. It was really good, interesting to see how Japanese
university life is and what Daniel has been doing before coming to ERAU. A short,
interesting discussion followed the presentations.
After this, some of the others and I decided
to go to the final English Café at OMU. On the way there, we stopped and got
Ice Cream and Crapes. This was good, and I was able to get melon crapes which I
have never tried before. About halfway through our meal however, the buddies navigating
from the Sugimoto Campus to Nakamozu (where the English café is) realized
something. Our bus was about to leave, and we had to hurry out. So, the group
of us ran out of the café with all of our food and waters to the bus, making it
just in time.
Once we
arrive at the English café, we started by listening to another presentation. This
presentation was of a French student studying at OMU. He talked a lot about France
and French Culture. One thing I was surprised by this was how much variation
French Culture has in the different regions. This is very comparable to the
USA, which I was surprised by. Even one part of France is more German than French.
He then left us with some conversation topics for among our groups. I was also
amazed with how many questions I got about Fishers, Indiana, as people from my
state think it’s boring. However, I was happy to answer and talk about our hometowns.
Finally, after that we go to eat Ramen. It was good food, and we had more time for conversation with our friends. The dish I ate was considered a spicy dish, however, it wasn’t that spicy but still good. I Also got to eat some chicken there, which was what I mainly wanted to eat. Before going home, I went and exchanged my JR pass for the rest of the program. Ending the night writing this blog.
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