9. | Nine days before the day, and I missed posting this yesterday. Anyhow, this goes to all my friends who left, or are leaving this semester; thank you so much  for being part of this very wonderful experience.

This is the sad part of having international friends in exchange programs - leaving. But this doesn’t mean that the friendship ends as well; we all know better than that. 

Have a safe trip! This is not a ‘goodbye’ - we’ll all be seeing each other some time in the future. また今度！

…Got home at two in the morning, since we had this sort of ‘Congratulations, you’re graduating!’ drinking night. Yesterday, we had a sort of formal graduation ceremony for those leaving after the fall semester. We’re a lot actually; few international students will be staying for the year, and it’s really sad to see people leaving. Sigh. 

Yesterday was still fun though, and I can definitely say it’s the greatest Friday the 13th ever.