Day 29: Ending our journey as a group

Today marked our last day here as a class, how sad! It was a good last day though.

I started off by having an adventure at the post office mailing home a box full of books. Luckily it wasn't too expensive, but I'm not sure if I will ever see those books again. After the post office I had my delicious cherry blossom pancakes again for breakfast so of course my day started off well. I spent the rest of the day mainly doing homework and trying to get my assignments done, until my computer decided to stop working. Luckily by some miracle I backed all of my homework up right before it crashed and had been backing up all the pictures regularly so I didn't lose anything. I spent a large part of the day trying to get it working again, but I eventually got frustrated and didn't want to waste my time in Japan trying to fix technology.

So I walked around our town we were staying in and got some lunch. I'm not sure why, but I really wanted to try the Japanese version of Irish food so I found a nice restaurant, and well, the food wasn't so nice.

They absolutely love fried chicken here! I just don't get it because I don't think it tastes good here at all. But the rest of the food was actually really good, just the spaghetti seemed a little bit misplaced. Irish food with spaghetti and rice... not sure. After lunch I just walked around the Bic Camera which is a rival for the largest electronic store in Japan. So I looked at about a million iPhone cases but couldn't find anything to buy.

At last it was time for our last outing as a group to a very nice dinner. We all dressed up and went to sushi in Shinjuku. We had an eight course meal with unlimited drinks and it was a great time with everyone. And it helped that all of the food was delicious as well.

We ended the night going out in the town in Shinjuku and finally finding a big-eyed photo booth. We have been wanting to find one since the beginning of the trip, but I guess they are really hard to find. We followed the natives into an arcade and on the 5th story was finally an entire floor of photobooths. It was a great way to end the night and yielded some really scary looking results. It has been such an amazing trip and I am ready to embark on a four day journey here on my own!