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No time to stop... Must... type.... blog.... update...

If you couldn't already tell, I'm pretty tired at the moment, as with only 5 days left in my apartment, I'm doing a lot of last-minute running around (and I promise that's no where as nimble as it sounds). Between the goodbyes, cleaning, packing, shipping, canceling accounts, updating resume, worrying about paying for gas when I get home, things are really all over the place and for at least the next bit, it seems there's no end in sight.

Well we're on the subject, can someone tell me what the heck you guys did to gas prices while I was gone??? Man, it was $2.50 per gallon what I left! I thinkin' I'm definitely going to miss the trains over here. They're cheap, convenient, and most importantly, are on time 99.9% of the time.

I'm feeling kind of tired right now so here are a few pictures that I think you might enjoy... Just a fyi, my internet is being turned off tomorrow so I'm not sure I'm going to be able to update again till I get back! If that's the case, I'll see you in a 8 days!

They think I'm a monk.

Coworker, Kumiko

Kumiko and Kanako at Yakiniku.

Junko, one of my coworkers.

At Disney Sea with Kanako and Kumiko

Awesome beef sashimi!

More coworkers, Eri and Sachiko

Atsugi friends

BBQ TIME!

I can't believe it! Less than four more weeks in Japan and then I'll be back in the U.S. Geeez, I know I've said this before, but it truly does feel like I just got off the plane. I remember sitting next to this guy from Hawaii who seems to have sipped a few too many pina coladas in his day...

Well, I'm sure you all know by my previous post that I've bought my ticket back home... I guess that's the point when it really hit me that I'm coming back because now I have a firm date and now I'm just counting down the days. Before you know it, I'm going to be back... But until then, it seems like the rest of this month is going to be me saying farewell to everyone who made my time in Japan so enjoyable.

I've already started saying goodbye to many people and as you can imagine that can be difficult. I don't think it's so bad saying goodbye as much as it is the fact you don't know when you're going to see them again. Thus, like a true Japanese person, I've been taking a lot of pictures of everything.

This past weekend was one of those occasions. On Sunday, a group of friends and I got together to do a BBQ on the Sagami River (which is not far from where I live). It turned out to be a great day with incredible food. We really lucked out too because for the past week it had been raining, but the day of the BBQ was great -- actually, I ended up getting sunburnt!

Next weekend should be more of the same as I'm going to see Sueko-obasan and Yaiko-obasan probably for the last time before I got back to the U.S. I'm really excited to go see them as they are some of my favorite people. They're always laughing, joking, and just in general, are a lot of fun to be around. Of course, as always, it will be a well documented event, so expect pictures!

Well, that's it for now, folks! Hope you're doin' well.