So I've less than a month left in Japan. I'm starting to throw stuff away, pack things up, send last letters to people, and party even harder than usual (which has been catching up to me). We're at the end of the rainy season right about now, I'd say, though Mother Nature sure did dump a lot of water on us. One day we got more than three inches. Three inches! I didn't even try to go outside that day, even though I had classes. I wasn't about to go out in the pouring rain, get drenched on the way to school, be pissed in class, then have to walk home. Oh well, my teachers understood. We have had our nice days the past month, and I've been to Amakusa, a beach-town a few hours away
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