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I usually try not to update my blog too often, but since I have some time, and am feeling great, so yeah why not?

Thank you for your understanding, readers :)

I am in Narita now, waiting for my next flight to New York. Narita is a fantastic airport to be stuck in, it has Japanese food, goods, and people. The free wifi's great, and I'm enjoying a fantastic resting space which is stylistically built and is very comfy! Although objectively Singapore's Changi Airport remains the best transit place I've experienced, I am very pleased with what I get here. As a bonus, I was enjoying my bowl of tonkatsu in a restaurant here when I heard a bunch of Japanese people practicing their Bahasa Indonesia. After the meal, I stopped by them, praised their Bahasa in Japanese, and finished off with terimakasih and sayonara. They were shocked; but it's one of the many little moments which make learning foreign languages worth it ;)

The comfy sofa-bed in Narita

Ahh. It is lovely to be back in Japan, even if just for a while. It brings me back to the country which treated me very well. It's difficult to not remember strolling down the dimly lit streets of Kyoto or watching the cherry blossoms flutter in Osaka Castle whenever I hear Japanese being spoken. I am truly grateful, for whatever the costs might have been, that I chose and was given the opportunity to spend some time in Japan during the past semester.

Let me conclude this with another story, a reminisce of my Japanese memory. Toward the end of the program, I began to hang out more with the 3rd Year Japanese kids, and they love going to Nipponbashi with passion. Nipponbashi is almost an hour's worth of travelling from my home in Shojaku, and in the region they do three main things: Doujinshi, Games, and Arcade. To be very honest, I wasn't much of a doujinshi/anime or game console buff, but I really enjoyed the Arcade visits to Taito.

On our second last weekend, I decided to follow Bry-Chan to split up with the group from Namco and to go to Taito. Probably good thing I did so, because I discovered this amazing drum game in the latter arcade. I really enjoyed the game because before I knew it I was smiling and laughing everytime I managed to beat a song. However, there was a song that I was always very close to beating, but I never managed to. I promised myself that I would beat the song before I left Japan for good. Therefore, in the very last day (it was a Friday after our final exams, and everyone had to check out of the dorms on Saturday), when everyone was shopping, packing, or saying goodbyes, I left for Taito by myself to finally beat the song, and only after then I joined the group's farewell party. I'm so glad that I did so, because now I can say I left Japan without any regrets!

Well, I hope you all are having fun! Cheers!