School has ended. I've taught my last class I'll likely ever teach as an ALT. I had to give goodbye speeches in front of all my schools and they presented me with flowers and goodbye gifts. It was nice, but I'm glad it's over, I hate giving those goodbye speeches. I also received a lot of those cards where everyone writes goodbye to you on those big cardboard things. I'm going to miss all my students and teachers. I had one student cry. Secretly, that is what I wished for and I would have been really sad if I didn't get that. Thank you for all the great memories, it has been fun!Even though I'll have had two weeks to do things, I'm super busy and haven't had time to do everything I wanted. I'm trying to fit in a bunch of goodbye parties in between trying to clean, it's a hard deal. I've met a lot of awesome people over the 3 years I've been here. It's hard to say goodbye to them, especially when I think about how everyone has moved on quite a bit back home.
I'm done with school but still going in for speech practice. I've got one student who I'm hopeful for, she's got really good English. She's writing about her grandparents' cooking soy boiled food. Hope the new ALT can lead her to prefecturals because she definitely has the talent!
We've had a few meetings at the BOE on getting ready to go home, said our goodbyes there, and just today they came to pick up our trash. They said they were going to the dump, but they were really going to the garbage/recycle place. I didn't put my trash in bags so we all had to help do it before loading it onto the truck. More lost in translation! I'm going home on the 6th. Going to Tokyo on the 4th after Minato Matsuri to hopefully meet some people, then Oregon awaits!
It's been a long journey. Can't believe it's all coming to an end.
送別会【そうべつかい】 (sou/betsu/kai) farewell party
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