They arrived on campus right before my 12:00 class, Speaking Japanese. My parents didn't understand a word of it, but it seems that they enjoyed my professor's enthusiasm and crazily illustrated sample sentences.
Then, it was off to Issues in Contemporary Japan. For the past couple weeks, class time has been devoted to student presentations. Today's were on homosexuality in Japan. My parents became active members of the class during Q&A; my mom even pitched in her opinions on Queer as Folk.
We ate lunch in the cafeteria, where the food is both cheap and surprisingly delicious! I had told a group of friends ahead of time that my parents were coming, so we had a nice big group lunch. Everyone was really nice and included my parents in the conversation.
The last class of the day was Popular Culture as Social Practice. We just happened to be watching a movie today, which is just as well. Kamikaze Girls is a really good movie - watch it, if you possibly can.
Since that class gets out at 5:30 (and the movie went even longer), we decided to go out to dinner. I decided to take my folks to Kappa Zushi, a kaiten zushi (conveyor-belt sushi) restaurant near campus. The sushi here is both delicious and cheap (since Kappa Zushi is a restaurant chain). And the novelty of sushi traveling around a row of seats on a track never gets old.
All in all, a really fun day!
I hadn't been looking forward to today (who wants to chill at school?), but it was actually really nice to show my parents around. And since they've met my friends, now they know who I'm talking about when I Skype them.
Not many pictures today, so here are a couple shots of campus I realize are long overdue.
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