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Wow today was an eventful day. First i had to write my Japanese going away greeting all in Japanese. I hope there aren't that many problems with it. I will send it to the English teacher to look at it before i give it to the Vice-principal. Then i had my last elementary school for the year, and they are by far my favorite school. We had play practice and then all the grades got together for this English class assembly where each of the three grade groups got together and showed each other what they had learned in English class from the year. Then at the end the 5th and 6th graders did a play, "The big turnip." It's a Russian story that never heard of before, but it is well-known in Japan. Then i said my goodbyes and thank yous and the kids gave me three bottles of Tabasco sauce and about 35 pounds of rice. I don't know what i will do with all that rice, i think i will give the bulk of it to the new ALT when she comes, but i want to send some of it home so i can give it to friends and have some for when i get back. Man, think about what you need, and the Japanese will instinctively give it to you. I was gonna buy some more tabasco, and i wanted some rice to take home and now i have it.

Then i have to write a thing for my application to one of the schools i am applying for. I have to write about if there is such thing as "bad grammar." I think i came up with a good 500 word essay about it.

Then finally, the weirdest thing happened, i didn't see it but from what i gathered and the huge amount of key-chains, one stranger apparently gave the kids as they were leaving school right out in front of plain view of the teacher's room, a big amount of key-chains, look at the pic. I don't know if he handed them or just threw them, but there was like 7 or 8 bags of really old looking key-chains- at least 5 or more years old- and they looked a little moldy. So the kids came and gave them to the teachers and they called the cops. i will have to see how this unfolds, but i think that there was about $1000 worth of key-chains in the entire lot. So many of them, there would be enough for more than one per kid, but still it is just so strange. some of the teachers looked around town and drove to find the guy since he was in a car and the kids go a description and a plate number.

An interesting day, but i am still worried about the radiation, i just hope that i can leave here without any injury. I think the best comment i heard in regards to the poor response from the Japanese government-but not the response from the crews and workers, they have given their all and the Japanese people are awesome at a time like this- was that Japan could do without politicians for ten years or something along those lines. Good idea maybe since the public seems to have lost an confidence that they have had in the revolving-door line of prime minsters since Koizumi left power.