Entries this day: AM_last_day GET-CC_graduation Last_day Seminar_room dropped_an_orange keitai

AM last day

10:30am MAGST Monday 29 August 2005

I am beginning to pack.

11:25am MAGST Monday 29 August 2005

My bed is covered in stuff, and Katt and I are about to go to our last lunch on P.B's 49th Voyage. I have finished packing my drawer, and almost filled a suitcase.

Katt: "how do you feel?"

me: ".... .... meh."

GET CC graduation

4:30pm MAGST Monday 29 August 2005

We had a private GET T / CC graduation ceremony in the theater, for whch we thankfully did *not* have to get dressed up. Audrey presented us all with certificates and compared us all to various things: The Big Dipper, a bag of trail mix, toilet bowl cleaner, a huge shaver with a radio attached to the side, Bobby from the Tae Bo video, a big bowl of corn, the Topaz crew, the Namihei, GET Room 10 closet, the light above your bed, a big huge comic strip, etc etc etc. Joel gave certificates to all the CCs, and Emi and Allison gave certificates to our leaders and each other. Really good times.

Haha! Emi presented an award to Matt the Artist, her husband.

Afterward, we attached sheets of paper to our backs and all signed notes for each other and it was great. Lines of people writing on the back in front of them.

Went to the top deck for drinks afterward.

Hitomi chased me down and asked me something and I was like, "no - write them down."

Last day

9:56pm MAGST Monday 29 August 2005

Today has been a final whirlwind to finish this crazy awesome trip. I have somehow packed two suitcases while watching Matrix 3 and we had a GET / CC graduation ceremony then free drinks and pictures upstairs and Hitomi tried to talk to me but I flat wouldn't let her. Then GET meeting and Audrey/Yuuka thanks and dinner then paying final bill and now the day is basically over like zoooom!!

Wrote all that and this in Dvorak in 8 minutes!

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The Happy Wonderful Girls wrote me a card and Yuka, who cried after I told her to stop being shy, said that moment affected her in a positive way. Awesome.

Seminar room

11:30pm MAGST Monday 29 August 2005

We're bringing stuff to Seminar Room; my shit is basically cleared out. Thanks to Katt for helping me carry stuff.

11:49pm

Got my four bags to Seminar Room and got a receipt.

Gotta be up at 7am tomorrow.

dropped an orange

11:30pm JST Monday 29 August 2005

New timezone; back into the Japanese timezone!!! Katt and I walked around the top of the ship and I dropped an orange that had been sitting in my room, but hadn't been eaten for quite a long time. We are traveling quite slowly, so there was basically no wind and very little wave action. We could hear the orange go gabloosh into the water.

keitai

12:37am JST Tuesday 30 August 2005

We are in Tokyo Bay; I have phone service and wonder how many text messages will flood in.