oh, nothing particularly life-changing happened in the missing blog post weeks, btw.

Except for deciding to have a party "to celebrate this wonderful year [as a Waseda student, in Tokyo] with the people that have made it so". Marion is my co-organiser, we've set it as our duty to buy all the supplies for the party. It will be held at the dorm and to make it cheap (and comfortable?) we plan to make the food ourselves, with the help of an army of friends. Menu: okonomiyaki, curry (two kinds: vegetables only and with chicken), potato salad, gyoza, crisps and other such snacks, and perhaps some dozens of cream puffs if we have enough money leftover (we're charging just 1000yen per person).

There will be alcoholic and soft drinks. The base group of invites is comprised of 13 exchange students and each can bring/invite up to 3 people each, so we expected around 50 people but very few have invited people to this party and numbers stand at around 30.