Day 83 (Osaka) : Parting is such sweet and sour

I'm pretty sure the saying is something like that. Two of the students in my class were here on the short 6 month program and today was their last day in class. Apparently we have the exam on Monday and some number of days off. I haven't exactly figured it out because the schedule is done up in four shades of gray and it's hard to tell how one gray is different from the next. That being said, my exam will be on Monday from 1:00pm so I'm guessing I won't have a class that day at least. Since Tuesday is reserved for other classes to take their exams it should be a day off too. Going by the schedule I might be off until Friday, which would be weird but I guess that gives them time to grade the exams and shuffle the classes around.

I still think the whole idea of placement exams are pretty bogus. We'll just be put into which ever class has open seats. It's not like the class rooms are big enough to have a lot of choices where people are going to go. Today I'm just relaxing and taking a chance to recover from last night. Tomorrow and Sunday I'll be reviewing the material and trying to practice some conversation skills. Hopefully I won't do so terrible on the interview that they low ball me again. Because apparently the opinion of the interviewer over rides your actual grade which is the reason why some of the Asian kids in my class have insane Japanese skills.

Speaking of the two people who left, one of them was Bachika. He was the cat from Mongolia... or something. He brought in some kind of two stringed instrument and gave a little performance before our lunch break. He left after that so we didn't even see him for the last two hours. The other guy actually cried when the girls gave him a going away card. I guess he had some really great times in the six months he was here or something. I can't really see that happening to me and since the class has become so clumped up in groups it's kind of nice to shuffle things around next week.