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Well this week I was invited by my colleagues to graduation. It is here that as college semesters are independent, they end up at this time of year. Each one returns to his hometown to work, so this day is celebrated because it is a nice way of saying we're not going to see more, or who knows.
楽しく て 悲しかった でした
Upon arriving in the morning to sports hall of the university, I found the display of kimonos biggest I've seen to date, and not only that, but most were kimono dress, so it was of more picturesque. The truth that we put color note of foreigners who were only 7, and we looked at the Japanese for their clothes, but they stared at us without stopping.

With the beautiful Yasawa
With Master Futbolera June

addition, it Once the note was real color, our colleague Evans (Kenya) had brought his sister from London, obviously the two are black, so I imagine for many of those present, was the first time they could actually see that they are people with two arms, eyes and legs like them.

The happy family trying to read the program

We went inside, and the ceremony began. Seems like a graduation as we can see in Spain, but no, the thing was a bit different, as though he had to endure the roll of the school principal for almost everything had to get up Seat everyone to make bows.

The director was names one by one the different faculties or fields of study, and all who had studied the industry rose from the seat. Then, including the director said the name of the person who had the best record, and only and only that person up on stage at the gym to pick up the diploma. So with all the powers.

Then, and since this is a religious university (the Tenrikyo), equivalent to the Pope took the stage and I recited a speech unbearable. After that, they sang the hymn of the university, and ended the ceremony. Among bells and whistles, the ceremony lasted hour and a half, and what I liked, apart from tiny embedded so cute in their kimonitos, was that the background music throughout the entire ceremony was real, three groups of musicians were anxious to exchange and "click" music classical, traditional and a chorus of voices.

I was amused that the students fell asleep during the course of the speeches, because it is the same as they do in the classroom, incredibly, students sleep during class, because here it is true that once enter college, four years later, that is what lasts, salts with the title in hand, which does not say much of Japanese university education system, and fear gives me get sick and be at the mercy of a Japanese doctor (I'll tell you more stories about it, because they fear ...).
The fact is that this time the parents also fell asleep, lol, I think that Arthur has taken photos to prove it:)

Anyway, after the ceremony, they went to pray at the temple. Yes, I know, but I had to tell.

After the prayers, we all gather in the main building of the classes, where each one, and in his own class, they delivered a bag containing the title and a small gift from the university, and then everyone put in a room to eat sushi and other meats in the country. We put on boots to eat and drink. The music on stage, again, real, a jazz band, but they played really nice music, but too sad for my taste.

Miho With Mass and do not leave!

Upon completion, English, went to a restaurant to eat and drink. The truth that at first I dreaded the fact that everyone else who had English as their mother tongue could not come (except for Glen), fearing that he could not communicate with anyone, in fact, the first phrase I one teacher said to me, betrayed perhaps could not communicate with anyone but .... On the contrary, my Japanese blossomed like a rose, I talked non-stop, we laugh a lot, so I could not say what I meant by my facial expression.
Anyway, had a great time for the first time I have felt like one more, not as the mascot of the English department as I saw so far.

laughter Dead
A Guilty that I am in Japan

Indeed, in this picture, the two guys that appear, are the last two guys remain in college who went to Salamanca for four years and are the same group guilty that I'm here today.

Then, as the culmination of any party in Japan that boasts, karaoke, sing like bitches, I this time, trying to read the lyrics as the songs sung in Japanese colleagues.
trieste
What is that 80% of the people I knew, this day have left the university. I have no fear, this happens to me every year for seven, and now this start again, I face a new perspective, I'm going to japan to eat potatoes, well, that if re-sell in the supermarket, last few days have not been found.

Anyway that ... luck to everyone in your new life, wherever.

In Costa Rica it has been said!
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!