So, I handed in my last paper and finished school on Tuesday. Since then, as you can probably imagine, things have been good. Tuesday night and went out with some friends to celebrate. We got Mexican food and I drank a very large kiwi margarita in celebration of my finishing the semester. Then Wednesday I went to the kindergarten. My 3 and 4 year old group was kind of bad, but I`m working on games and activities where they can move around and have fun while learning, so hopefully it`ll go better this week. All my other classes were fine. Then on Thursday I met up with some friends and we ate sushi, went to karaoke, a cafe and a bookstore. Karaoke was really fun. The friends I went with were German, Portuguese and Swedish, and my German friend, Thomas, kept picking random American songs and just assuming that I knew them. I ended up singing Sweet Home Alabama and rapping(sort of) Stan by Eminem, despite my not knowing the words. For the record, I cannot rap, it`s just like me talking, in rythym, with background music. It`s okay, though, we got him back by making him sing `I feel like a Woman` with us. Also, one of my friends is starting a band, and she really liked my voice during karaoke, so she asked me to sing for them. I really don`t think my voice is good enough to sing in a band and I think we`re gonna be really bad, but it should be fun. Can you imagine it? Me in a band. I wonder where we`ll play, most houses in Japan don`t have garages or basements and that`s where most crappy bands started by young people with nothing better to do play. Hmmm...Then on Friday, I bought a kimono. It`s really pretty, it`s pinkish/peach with a really pretty design and it`s all silk. Every once in a while, department stores sell used kimonos that they`ve been renting out, that`s the only reason why I could afford an all-silk one. But it`s really nice. I`ll post a picture when I get a chance. Then Friday night I went out for Yakiniku with some friends. It`s korean barbecue. There`s a barbecue in the middle of the table and you roast meat and vegetables over it. It was fun and tasty. Plus it was all you can eat and all you drink, so by the end I was extremely full of meat and kind of drunk. Then on Saturday I went with some friends to a Cold Stone that opened up in Tokyo a few months ago. The ice cream was really good, but the place was really busy so we had to wait outside in line for 45 minutes before getting our ice cream. Then we had to sit outside while we wait it cause there weren`t any tables, so I was pretty much freezing the whole time. But it was worth it. Interesting fact, since people don`t tip in Japan, the Cold Stone workers sing a song when you get the large size of ice cream. I was with four friends (all foreign) and we all got large ice creams so they had to sing 5 songs in a row. It was actually kind of embarassing...like hey, check out the foreigners eating the fatty ice creams. Oh well. Then today, I went to church, ate korean food, got introduced to Japanese music, watched Boondock Saints for the first time (good movie) and received a wonderful Valentine`s Day package from my parents. Thanks mom and dad, you`re the best!! So that`s my week, a pretty good one if I do say so myself. Thoroughly proving my theory that Japan would be totally awesome if not for the school.