Adam's Japanese Journey: The Last Night – Adam in Japan #7

I had an amazing time in Japan, but eventually, all good things must come to an end. I also want to say that my first trip to Japan couldn't have been spent with a better group of people. We had an award ceremony on our last night together, and this is what I wrote afterwards:

During the award ceremony, everyone received a certificate for completing USA Summer Camp, and we also got an award that is entirely in Japanese, so I'll have a fun time translating it. Then we got individual awards, and mine was the "Best Director" award. It felt pretty good to win the award for directing a horror film with my team, and I only say "pretty good" because I was "incredibly" honored to win what I believe is the most special award on the team.

My team voted for me to win the "Eric Spindler" award. Here's some backstory: he was a counselor who passed away before he could come back to USA Summer Camp for a second year. In his honor, someone from each team is given an award for being devoted to the campers. You have no idea how great I felt, but it's just going to make me feel sadder about leaving my team. I'll have to consider coming back to camp again in the future because I made so many great friends here in Japan.

Our last night together was so much fun, but it was a sad night, too. We all gave speeches at the end, and I threw together a montage video for everyone to watch. I had to make it without anyone knowing about it, and I barely finished it by the deadline. Overall, I was happy with how it turned out, though.

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading about my time in Japan throughout these seven posts, and I’ll blog about it again when I return in the near future. But for now, I need to continue studying Japanese every day because I really do feel like I’m improving quite a bit. I’ll continue to keep you guys updated on all of the progress that I make using the Japanese Level Up method.