Pack It Up, Pack It In

I can't belive that Sunday night I am getting on a plane. Our room is full of suitcases, my roommates now realizing the sheer volume of all of the souvenirs they bought and the futility of their efforts to cram all of it back into their suitcases. I'm not going to pack until Sunday. Today was our last day of class. It was sad. I went out this morning and bought everyone mochi. It was delicious! I just discovered that the bakery down the street has mochi. I suppose that's a good thing. I got everyone's e-mail address from my class. They have mine. Hopefully, we can stay in touch but it was sort of funny because today we realized that we still don't know each other's real names. Pep, the Thai girl, asked me what she should call me. We only know each other's Chinese names and I don't know how to write those. It just struck me as kind of funny.