Surreal
The past week has gone surprisingly fast, with friends to see and things to do. We had a great party on Thursday, where I had a chance to brush up on my karaoke before I face off with the veterans in the land of the rising sun. It was sad saying goodbye to my friends, but it's not like I'm moving away permanently. On Friday I spent my last evening with the Reilu Kerho (literaly: "The Fair Club"), our miniatures/fantasy card games/anything nerdy club which is so called due to the way we treat each other, a way decidedly unfair. We finished off with an epic snowfight, and then Sodfoot, Cheesemeister and I set off to walk home.
It seemed tonight the feel was right for some deep and meaningful conversation, which continued to such an extent that we eventually found ourselves at a local playground, having an indecent amount of fun on a zip wire. I was suddenly hit surrealness of it all. I was messing about with two of my good friends at a snow covered playground in the middle of the night. I wouldn't see Cheesemeister for 10 months, and I wouldn't be seeing Sodfoot (going back to the U.S.) until I join him and his jolly fellows on a sailing trip around the world. Hopefully he will miss me enough by then for me to get away with appointing myself as the ship's rum supervisor. We eventually headed back, the conversation having degenerated to topics such as bombs, Chernobyl and other wicked nuclear shit. Ahh, the unpredictable joys of masculine conversation.
Saturday was a quiet day, but just as surreal. It's a ridiculously weird feeling, making all these preparations to leave, but you still really don't exactly know where your going and what you're going to do. All I know is that I'm leaving on Monday, sometime before 6am, to depart to Tokyo, Japan on the biggest adventure of my life to date. Today some extended family are popping over from Tampere for a final leaving party, after which I expect some solemn packing of bags and a well needed early bedtime.
Sakari
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Just keep contact electronically at least; if you're not on MSN enough, I'll deny ever knowing you. ;) But have a great stay in Japan, reilukerho won't be the same without you. But I guess if I try to write something meaningful I'll just end up making a fool of myself, so I'll just shut up now.
You'll probably wake up very soon after the time that I'm writing this; yes it's 2:30 in the morning and I'm still up doing my Math IA which is due tomorrow (don't ask; drastic miscalculation of required time for the assignment...). Fortunately Red Bull has been invented.