Xmas Party

Tonight was the Christmas Party at Seminar House 4! Unfortunately, I left my camera at home...it was charging and I completely forgot about it. Since I was a guest, the dorm policy was that I couldn't actually go into the kitchen/dining room area to eat (which was incredibly lame), but that didn't stop friends from stealing food for me. The theme was, of course, international food, since we have students from all over the world living in Sem4. I ended up having okonomiyaki, Thai spring rolls, and risotto for dinner. I suspect that there were other delicious tidbits available, but since I couldn't actually check it out myself... Sem4's Otousan and Okaasan were particularly vigilant.

I came home to discover that one of my Host Family's old exchange students, Michelle, had come to visit. She's in her mid-20's, I think, and is in the process of traveling around Japan to visit her friends. We had a long talk about studying Japanese and dealing with graduation. Michelle, like me, was unsure of what she wanted to do after college, so she became a teacher with the JET program. She taught English to high-schoolers in Japan's least-populated prefecture, about 4 hours west of Osaka.
I've always been on the fence about JET, since I've heard that volunteers have little-to-no say about their placement and work schedule. Talking to Michelle, however, made me feel like maybe this is something that I really want to do.