It’s been almost a month since I came back to Japan. I spent most of the time in Himeji. However, I went to Tokyo last weekend. I had very good time with my friends.

I got on a night bus on July 26th and arrived in Shinjuku on the 27th. Every time I used a night bus, I didn’t have any trouble with sleeping. However, somehow I couldn’t sleep well this time.

On July 27, I came to Shinano-machi and wrote a letter to Founder of my university. I’m not good at writing letters, so I took almost four or five hours to finish writing the letter :O I sent it to Founder through a SGI center. I met one of my friends from Himeji after that and talked for two hours or so. I moved to Hachiouji and left my stuff at my friend’s house. Since my sister lives near from my friend’s house, she came to see me, and we had dinner together. After that, I visited the dorm where my sister lives. It was a very nice dorm.

On July 28, my friends and I met a SUA graduate in Hachiouji and had lunch. It was so much fun. We spent five hours to chat. While we were chatting, I received a message from Founder. I was very impressed by his speed of response and strong encouragement. After that, my friends and I moved to SUJ since we had a meeting for SUA and SUJ students. There were sooooo many friends from high school. I got so excited lol. Anyway, at that meeting, we mainly  had presentations and discussion on Soka Education. Each of the presentations that  SUA and SUJ students gave was wonderful. They explained why we need “founding spirit” very well. Also, I really liked discussion. We spread into small groups. Each group had both SUA students and SUJ students. Being in the Soka Education school system together, we discovered not only similarities but also  some differences between those two schools. That was very interesting. Girls from class of 2012 went to have dinner together after the meeting. There were more than 10 girls. We had very good time <3

On July 29, my SUA friends and I went to Shinano-machi. Since we had  some American friends, I talked in English most of the time. I felt so weird. I never spent talking in English in Japan lol. We wrote to our Founder together. After that, we met some SUA graduates at SGI International Memorial Hall. All of us enjoyed talking  with them. Because I had to prepare for my departure, I had to leave there after lunch. I headed back to Hachiouji. After I finished my preparation, I went to SUJ. I had dinner with a senpai from highschool. She is studying at SUJ law school now. She has been at SUJ for almost six years….! :O It was nice to see her. I wish I could have met my best best friends from high school. However, one of them was in Kobe while I was in Tokyo! The other one was in Nagoya for job hunting! Irechigai >< With a little bit regret, I got on a night  bus and came back to Himeji on the 30th.

Although I wanted to see more friends in Tokyo, it was a nice trip.

I’m leaving Japan in three days.  Seeing pictures of my friends who recently went to TDL on facebook, I really wanna go to TDL now… it seems way better than California Disneyland lol. Anyway, I need to wait until next summer.

I’ll enjoy my stay in California for 17 days and in Ecuador for six months.