Donny's Farewell Day

So today was the last day I will probably ever hang out with Donnie. Other than the 7th, at the airport, when he leaves. I’m not even positive if I will be able to be there or not. But this shouldn’t be a sad post, it should be a happy one, because today was a really cool day.

First of all I had to go to a Rotary meeting. I had prepared a speech the day before, and it was pretty good (for me at least). But when I got to the meeting, I realized I had left it at home. So there was a bit of panic, since now I didn’t have a speech. Luckily I’m a smart person, and I managed to remember nearly the entire speech ( in Japanese) and re-wrote it twenty minutes before the meeting started. I only left out a small part, because my host mom had changed that part and made it all fancy and complicated, so it didn’t sink into my head as well. The speech was long enough as it was though, so it was ok. I did the speech, and I didn’t trip over the words at all, which is good progress. At the end of the meeting, one of the board women announced to everyone what happened - that I had forgotten my original speech and that the one they heard was written in twenty minutes. So I got a lot of kudos from that. One particular person in the back clapped really hard. He he.

Moving on. After that I met Donnie, Elina, Tiffany, Elli, Lisa and another German girl who I don’t know and forget the name of, at the Sapporo eki. From there we took the bus to Rejaspo, which is a giant arcade. You get a membership card, then you pay 1500 yen for 3 hours, and the entire arcade it free. Yet, for some reason, no one seems to know about this place. It’s almost underground.

There was so much to do there it was crazy. Probably way too many shooting games and racing games, a gambling corner, baseball pits, ping-pong courts, DDR, archery, just so much stuff. Basically, think of anything that’s fun, and in some form it exists in Rejaspo. And it’s all free. I played a lot of the arcade games, and gambled at the slots for a bit, some shooting games, watched Drew go through an obstacle course, went on the seg-way track with Tiffany, played darts and watched people do awesome DDR. And watched rock climbing. It was basically just a building full of awesome.

After that little adventure, some people had to go, so it was me, Donnie, Elina, Tiffany, Drew and the German girl. We went to some place for supper, and it was pretty fun, if not expensive. I just got a plate of chicken wings and it was about 500 yen. So that was a pretty fun time, just hanging out with some food, and a few friends I may never see again. Life is so full of this kind of stuff it makes my head spin.