Time Flies.....

Besides packing, cleaning, and freaking out over our change in flight schedule, we have made time for our dear friends in Hirosaki. These are people that we may never see again in person, so it is extremely difficult to say goodbye. Only the thought of our family and friends awaiting us in the States keeps us moving our feet forward. Here is a short outline of the major events that occurred during the past week:

One of our English Club students spent a day with us hanging out. We all enjoy karaoke so we went out to our favorite, Melodie Queen. After putting our time in at the Queen we had a good night of games and food. The next morning we witnessed her first ever McDonald's breakfast, as she is from a smaller town outside of Hirosaki without McDonald's. We were sooo happy to spend some extra time with her and establish a long-lasting friendship that we hope to continue in the States or Japan but of course on Skype!!!


The next day one of our best friends came over to spend the night. We did a Bible study and played games with a bunch of friends until late into the night. The next morning she invited us over to her house where we ate the wonderfully delicious Japanese food her mother kept putting in front of us!! We sat and talked for some time and finally had to tear away so we could go home to work on more packing and cleaning.




The next day one of our close students and her friends came over to eat lunch. Although their English is not the best, we had no problem having fun talking, playing games, doing magic tricks, and watching the national spring high school baseball tournament. We prepared an American style lunch for them consisting of cheese/broccoli casserole, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. But they insisted on making us some fried rice that was fantastic as well! We will really miss our students and wish we could have spent more time with students like these outgoing girls.

Just tonight, we had our final karaoke gathering at the Queen. This is a night of karaoke that will go down in the books or at least in our minds. A complete 6 hour marathon was hardly enough to quench our thirst for karaoke. We had a full schmorgasborg of food to enjoy including cupcakes, muffins, chocolates, potato chips, popcorn, and sweets galore. The greatest hits from three years of practice were put on the list and hearts laid out for all to sing. Vocal chords were shredded, headaches created, and heat exhaustion forced us to near collapse, but we left content and satisfied with our last ever visit to Melodie Queen.