I don't want to set the world on fire

I just want to start a flame in your heart.

So yes, past few days I have been absent from the blog. Apologies, but it was final exams and the first day of vacation, so it's been nice.

Aside from studying, taking exams, playing Fallout 3, and awkward last suppers with departing friends, not much has been going on worth mentioning.

I did, yesterday, hang out with a group of Japanese highschool girls. It's not as creepy as all that, I promise. My friends were leading a tour group and asked me to help them out and talk to them, because apparently they were on campus to practice their English. It was far more amusing than it should have been, because the three of us could say whatever we wanted as long as we said it at native spead and the girls had absolutely no idea what we said, but would nod and laugh at things regardless. Oh ho ho. Also we taught them LOVE AND PEACE , "Sugar Daddy", and my one friend tried to convince them that otakus are the coolest people in the world (otaku meaning super loser geeklings, for you uninitiated). Also they said my facial hair was "kakkoi (cool)" so I guess that's a good thing. And one of them asked me how often I need to shave. Apparently there is a word for razor that is "nori". Nori also means seaweed paper. So when she asked me I got really confused and thought she was asking if I applied seaweed paper to my face.

Oh language barriers. You are ever so amusing.

One of the guys on the floor wants us to go downtown as a last farewell tomorrow. I need to cancel my phone tomorrow so hopefully I somehow can meet up with them after that. Otherwise I'll end up missing out, and that would be upsetting.

After that, I think maybe this weekend I'll go to Yufuin with a friend or two if any are left. Then I plan on hitting the train station a couple of times and going as far as 500 yen will take me, just to see random cities for the hell of it. Then I'm pretty much out of time. I mean really, I have 7 days left in the city before I go to Fukuoka. So things are kind of rushed. Phooey on the semester lasting this long, but I guess if it had ended earlier I would have rushed home for Canal Fest like a fool.

Ah well, there's always next year's souvlaki.