Back to Nagoya, my first Japanese home!

considering that I still have more homework to do, and it is already 10pm here, this post will be short. I am definitely ready for this semester to be OVER! Yeah, I have learned a lot, and yeah I have had good times and bad, but right now, it seems as though the three weeks left are an eternity! I will be spending the weekend in Nagoya, visiting the Missionaries and Japanese friends that I made when I was there two years ago. I consider Nagoya my Japanese home, since it was the place where I first experienced living in Japan. Even my Japanese accent and some of my idiosynchrosies are Nagoyan. Thus, I consider myself to be something of a Nagoyan when I am in Japan, just like I think of myself as a West Virginian when I am in America. Of course, I will always and forever retain my Americanness, no matter how much I adapt to whatever situation I am in, but in terms of a Japanese home base, Nagoya is it. I have many fond memories there. It will also be a welcome reprieve from many of the students here, whom I have come to dislike, due to bad attitudes about learning Japanese, and just bad attitudes in general. I guess the saying is true, familiarity does indeed breed contempt. It is somewhat of a cruel irony when one prefers doing homework to being around other students, yet I find that the solace of my room is more welcome than the company of the other students here, which is where I am off to now, to finish what homework I have left in order to receive a much needed slumber.