2nd floor thinking of second chances

Well things are quickly closing in on the end of my stay in Japan, I keep coming up with more and more ways to seem to put off my time. Such as, I'm not leaving until next year, or not until next month, and now next week, 10 days, 9 days... and so forth. I don't want to believe I am leaving, but at the same time it is coming up and more and more I think of things I am going to miss. People I wish I could bring with me, and things I wish would always stay the same. I am doing my best to just enjoy my time here, but at the same time I know that the time is coming and I will have to say my final good byes. I really have enjoyed it here in Japan; there may have been some small problems, well not small but I look at them as insignificant. I have had such a great time and met so many great people that there is no way any insignificant problem could ever take them away.

The question now is what do I want to do before I leave, I have several days and a lot can be done in those few days. Some people get only a few days in their whole life to stay in such a different culture, and I can not take it for granted because I have been here for so long.

There are a few things I hope to be able to do. Maybe not such big deals, but I feel they are important to me. I hope to get a sweatshirt from the Kyudo club. I also want to take pictures with friends who I enjoy meeting every day but never really got a chance to do a lot with, but I know I will miss seeing them and I want to remember them.

People keep asking me if I am going to try going somewhere before I leave, but really I feel as though I want to spend my last days here near where I live and really etch the memory of this place into my head, rather than many small but colorful memories which I may end up forgetting sooner than later.

Today I spent hanging around campus enjoying the people around, talking, laughing, joking, and having fun conversations. I tried practicing a little Japanese, and just had a good time. I am somewhat worrying about my future in the US, everything seems quite up in the air, I just pray that things will work out, and I will do my best to continue with my life.