Last Tuesday we had a goodbye party for Rachel at Frisa's place. We had Mexican food and it was very good. It worked out perfectly as we had planned to do this for a while but didn't know how to get Rachel invited without hinting that it was a surprise party. Frisa invited her to go eat at a Thai restaurant while drunk so she believed him. It was a good night.
During the night we showed her a video that I had made (it took a month!) that had all the ALTs saying goodbye. The video starts out with a few seconds of karaoke, followed by ALTs' goodbyes, then some pictures that I tried to arrange to tell a story (probably failed on this), then goodbyes from some of the shops that she really likes in Kesennuma. Bloopers followed, and finally credits. I also downloaded and burned to DVD all of her Facebook pictures as she had mentioned a while back that she had wanted to do that but couldn't reasonably (by the time I finished downloading all the pictures, there were over 10,000 of them).
And just last night we had another surprise (sorta) goodbye party where BOE members and ALTs met up at PinPon. More good times. The after party was at Stray Sheep, the BEST bar in Kesennuma!
Goodbye Rachel, after 5 years of Kesennuma!
I'm going back to Oregon for a while and will be back on the 10th of August, just in time for Minato Matsuri. Looking forward to it!
送別会【そうべつかい】 (sou/betsu/kai) farewell party
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