End of my exchange

Better late than never

July 13, 2020

After my exchange I was planning on writing the last chapter "January monthly recap", but it didn't happen for a while. It's now two and a half years later and I figured I should finish this.

The final month of my exchange passed very quickly. We had a roadtrip to a maglev museum and some village near mount Fuji. Unfortunately it seems like I don't have any pictures from there. Other than that I spent most of the time in the nearby sushi restaurant, playing darts in "Shamrock" and drinking in "The Hub", a western style bar.

The local sushi restaurant

When I look back at my exchange some of the fondest memories I had was relaxing with my friends in a local sushi restaurant. It is operated by Den, a 75-year old fun man. We visited his place regularly throughout our entire exchange and we became quite good friends. We even went out drinking with him one time. By now there has been two sets of exchange students after us and I hope they have visited Den. If you are planning on having an exchange there, please find this restaurant and say hello to Den from me. I wish to return and visit Den again in the future some day.

Darts in Shamrock

Me and my friends played a lot of darts in Shamrock. We kind of stumbled upon this bar during the beginning of our exchange but we quickly became regulars. Playing electronic darts was extremely entertaining and we quickly became quite good. At one point at the end of our exchange we even took on some of the other regulars who have been playing for years and won a match against them.

I'm quite sad that we don't have any Dartslive machines here in Finland. Live darts is fun as well but there was something special about Dartslive that I can't quite put my finger on. After returning from my exchange I have been playing live darts every now and then with my friends. I even created a point calculator to make it easier to keep track of points.

I highly suggest you to try darts out!

All in all I had an amazing exchange and it was the best part of my studies by far. I highly suggest everyone who has a chance to go on exchange to do it. I'm still friends and in contact with both my fellow exchange students who I shared an amazing four months with in Japan.

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