Farewell Party for American

Saturday, May nineteenth, two thousand and seven

This evening a farewell party(送別会 soubetsukai) for an American friend of mine was held in the Japanese style pub(居酒屋 izakaya) that's managed by one of my second cousins. My family, friends and I organized the party for him because he leaves Japan very soon. Actually he's a history teacher in the US, therefore he's very interested in Japanese culture and history. That's why he came to Japan, I suppose. As far as I know, he has to renew his teacher licence and get a job as a teacher in the States. So he need to get back to his country for that, I guess. Since I have a Japanese traditional style house, I occasionally invited him over to introduce our custom. It was quite difficult but fun for me to describe Japanese culture in English. I often tried to do that as he brought me a lot of good chances. Anyway, I want to improve my English skills much more until I have a reunion with the nice guy. Of course, that's pretty tough for my old noodle, though. I bet his Japanese skills will become much better than my English ones then, because he's much smarter and younger than me. X(