Day 1 of Finals Week

Today was all about Political Economy of Japan. As I wasn't terribly worried about the final, and considering I had finished my term paper already, I decided to go to bed at 12:30 (after having a skype conversation with my Tante and Cousin -- PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY FORREST!) instead of staying up extra to write out more for my final. So eight-ish hours pass, and my alarms go off at 8:15, 8:30 and 8:45, like usual. By the time the 8:45 one goes off, I decide I'll get out of bed at 9:00, because I'm just too comfortable. True to my sleepy word, I roll out of bed, plug in my hair iron, and go to brush my teeth. By the time I get back and throw on some clothes in my still sleepy haze, I check to see if my hair iron is hot. And it's not. I go to check if the switch is on. It is. I look to see if the red light is on...and it's not. Normally, I probably would've freaked out. I'm without a working straight iron; how does a girl with black hair function without a straight iron? It's 3:51 pm and I'm still trying to work out that question. But this morning, I was too tired to care so I put on one of my hats and headed to school.

Japanese class was on the fun side today as it was our last day of class. We pretended to give each other presents, did an audio exercise and then chatted until Ueda-sensei handed out class evaluation forms and left. We literally had 45 minutes to fill out the evaluation form, so we together bonded, discussed what we thought were strengths and weaknesses of the class, and then somehow changed the subject to the public education system of America and the incorrectness of textbooks and their differences across the country. Oh Stanford students...

Shortly after class though I began working on my final. Today, the last e40 problem set is also due so a group of us (e40 kids and political economy kids) have camped out in our Japanese classroom and are just working. I finished by 3:00pm, spending a relaxing two hours editing my final essays. And now I'm fully done with Political Economy of Japan for life. Now all I have left to do is study for my Japanese final on Wednesday and my Religion final that is Thursday. My current plan is to walk home, then write out a complete study guide for Religion and maybe study a little bit for Japanese.

Day 1 of Finals Week Complete.