Wrapping Up the last post...

 Above is the bridge I talked about! And to your right is a sumo match. There were quite a few of these, and we watched every single one. TOTALLY worth it.

 Moar 鹿。

 Red Bull Mini Cooper staffed by Japanese girls giving to thirsty 外人！

 No Shave November! I worked hard this month...

 The Australians and the Texan. Love these guys.

 The Aussie and his 日本語 partner at the school festival! The festival gave us a 5 day weekend and was filled with every Japanese person i know asking me to buy their club's food to support them. I bought so much food... Japanese marketing is obviously a good department at this school. Also they had an AMAZING dance contest. The most memorable was the 50 women group dressed all as Charlie Chaplin and dominating the rest of the competition. That's a hard thing to do, especially when the board makes you perform first. That's right, these girls swept it as the first performers! It blew my mind.

 This is my first haircut. My good friend Yuna called her connection up and got me into a salon (lolwut) for free. These women who cut hair are rockstars. They cut my hair, washed my head, rubbed my shoulders, and made their scissors dance on my scalp! It was fantastic, but they all talked SO fast. And my Japanese isnt quite on that level yet. LOVED IT

 To your right is us riding to the Sanda Campus Coffee Hour. It was a great time, lots of snacks, charades, and tours of the beautiful Kobe Campus. I successfully Charaded "Pyramid". I am awesome.

Top left is Whale Sushi! It was delicious, and tasted like the tears of a thousand screaming PETA protestors... I loved every second of it.

Top is our visit to the elementary school! There I was shown around by a little girl who is so good at english at the age of whatever her age was that she put some 大学生 to shame! That little girl is gonna be a CEO someday.

The school itself was amazing as well; it was more high tech and well kept than American HIGH SCHOOLS. I'm fairly certain the curriculum was better too... These kids were so dang smart. Makes me think that I may be applying for JET after the Marines.

The last picture is the No Shave November Finale! We bearded so hard this month, it had to be documented!

Also during my absence from the blogosphere; lots of studying. Took my first final, my first midterms abroad, Thanksgiving was rather lonely because it's an american holiday, and been just been doing LOTS of studying. I'm learning alot, and it's hard to keep up.

Only a month left, and I'm feeling the squeeze. I gotta do alot in my last weekends and winter break, two term papers included! Working hard, playing hard, and all that noise. I don't want to leave this place.

It's a dream come true, and I dont want to wake.