I slept in way more than I was expecting, so I had to rush to eat breakfast and get going. It was a Tuesday, so my class was at one, but I have lunch plans with some friends, so I was trying to get to campus by noon. I ended up running around the house getting the last minute things I would need for lunch and for the Niji event. I then got on the train, but was a bit out of it and almost missed my stop (I did not though). I arrived at school and walked very quickly to meet up with Yuzumi and Miku for lunch, the place the three of us usually eat was crowded, so instead we ate in an almost empty classroom. I gave Yuzumi a birthday present, some Hershey's Kisses and a little stone coaster with a picture of Seattle painted on it. She seemed really happy, and Miku spent the next 10 minutes apologizing for forgetting Yuzumi's birthday. I tried convincing her that Yuzumi would forgive her if she sang Happy Birthday, but she was too embarrassed I guess haha.
After lunch, I went to the boring History class. We are now on World War 2. It is rather interesting to get another perspective on the war from a non-high school class.
Then I went to the lounge, I was asked to do an interview for Nihon-Television sometime I think next week or so, so that is pretty cool.
After that, I went to the lounge, we finished prepping for the Niji-Winter Olympics, making shirts, organizing and gathering everything, etc, then Sachi (2nd year of 4 at Waseda from Hawaii), another organizer, and I went over to meet everyone to take them to the gym, there is a tiny little gym that you can rent near Waseda. We walked everyone there, waited until we could enter the gym, during that time I was splitting my time between talking with the other organizers to make sure we were all on the same page and ready, and talking with the other Niji members that came, especially a few quieter looking people that were standing off to the side not talking with anyone. The three guy organizers, Vageesha, Eliot, and I were forced to wear really short shorts and the white niji winter Olympics shirts we made. The short shorts were really awkward, but I admittedly got used to them quite quickly. They were a bit breezy though. There was a lot going on, so I will not say everything, but the general run down was that we got everyone in, split them into teams, they played Nijna, then made team flags and names, then dragon tag (groups of three, front grabs tails, last wears tail, forming chain like mini konga line), then Dodgeball, then a balloon Battle (think Mariocart, people wear balloons and others have to pop them, last one standing wins), and finally a relay with a twist (Everyone on one side of the gym, and 3 sets of clothes and makeup, one for each team. One by one, people run over, grab the clothes, run back, and put the clothes on a selected representative. All reps were guys and the clothes included shirt, another shirt, skirt, headband, scrunchy, eyeliner, lipstick, panties, bra, and finally a banana for the rep to eat. The event was overall a huge success I think. Everyone seemed to have fun, I had fun, nothing went wrong, no injuries, and over 30 people showed up for it. Afterwards, a few of us went to eat dinner quickly and finally got home around midnight.
Good night