また台風？ Again typhoon?

Yeah, to make a long story short, its been three weeks since we had that really big typhoon hit us. It was super strong and everything. According to my friend, it was a very unusual typhoon. And, there's usually only one typhoon, on average, that comes and hits Okinawa this early. Yet, here i sit 3 weeks late and there's another typhoon overhead right now. This time there shouldn't be any blackout though. Its not nearly as powerful as the last one. It is a nice change though. Lately, its become really hot in Okinawa. Feeling in the 100's (I think the hottest was 108F).

But, enough of that. There's just one weekend that something actually happened so I'll talk about that now.

So, it all started on 6-10. Well, actually the night of. If you look at the pictures around this text, you can guess there was some sort of drinking event. (Seems to happen often enough...) This 飲み会 (drinking event) was to celebrate the new new 4th year students entering the lab. Except that only 3 of the 5 came (1 of the 3 from my lab, the girl). The drinking started at 8. We were at the 居酒屋 until 12 and we walked around a bit (since Toki-sensei was quite drunk). It was pretty fun and we ended up drinking quite a bit.
While walking around, I got to meet up with another friend who just graduated from our lab. He, ironically, also came back from a 飲み会 and was getting some air. We were hungry so we went to Lawson and bought cup ramen and ate as we just talked story. It turns out that he was going to leave to America (New Mexico) in 2 weeks and so his office had a party for him and one other coworker who was leaving the next day.
So, I finally got back to my dorm at around 3 in the morning. Got washed up and everything and finally got to bed at around 4:30.
The next day was just as busy! Starting from12, there was a 理学部 (science department) volleyball event. It was a total of 4 hours and I thought there would at least be some breaks inbetween games. Turns out that I was completely wrong. It was basically 3.5 hours of straight volleyball playing. It was quite difficult but fun! I'm definitely going again next year!
I got home and took about a 30 minute nap before eating a quick dinner and heading off to another event. It was a 24 hour charity marathon for the Tohoku region. For those that don't know, the Tohoku region is the region that got hit really hard by the Tsunami a few months ago. The point of the event was to walk/run as far as we want and the total would hopefully end up being enough to have gone all the way to Tohoku. I'm not sure, but there was probably some money or something that was also being raised. But I'm not sure. I ended up walking 7.5 miles. Yes, I was exhausted after the 4 hours of volleyball but it was for a good cause. I figure that whats a little pain compared to what those in Tohoku have felt.

After this, we went to Karaoke to pop the karaoke cherry of my friend. LOL. It turns out that he actually had a good time and is looking forward to going again! So, that was a success!

Well, I'm over looking at my computer screen. Been doing it all day since I didn't go out at all today cause of the typhoon. Hopefully tomorrow will be better so that I can go biking or something.
Until next time, ALOHA~~! ヾ(*´∀｀*)ノ