The final week

Days 23-27 


So it's the final week in Okayama *sad face*
Turns out we've been asked to give a presentation at the Kawasaki Society of Medicine about our stay
"it will be attended by many professors and open to all doctors and students"
eek.

With our English attitudes towards work, we decide to somewhat sack it off until later in the week
We spend the meantime eating Halow's burgers, looking at second-hand electronic trumpets and winning mediocre arcade prizes
Oh yeah, I sent a package of novelty sweets home

Monday, we had been invited for dinner and a game of tennis with my orthopaedic professor, sadly, due to my epic vomiting sesh, I did not feel up for this, Tom-san & Sam-san said it was good however (tennis was cancelled due to the ridiculous rain).

The weather began to get drier and hotter as the rainy season was on its way out, being replaced by the death that is Japan's Summer
The silver lining was that the 牛カエル had all been killed off by the snaked and weird rat-like-thing that arrive in Summertime.

Wednesday soon came around, and we decided to start work on our presentation
With it not being the hour before the deadline, progress was slow so we decided to go bowling instead and tackle it in the morning.

Thursday comes round, and we put our game faces on and start whaling on PowerPoint like a group of possessed mother truckers, pausing only to sip fanta grape, buy novelties from the shop and take photographs of ourselves:

Boom.

So we finally finish the thing about an hour before presentation time, definite win.

Scary stuff.

The presentation went down a storm, even though Sam-san stole 2 of my slides.

Afterwards, we were given a gift from the Kawasaki Society of Medicine, presented by the Dean, Mr. Fukunaga
He seems pretty terrible at Birthdays as he gave us the gift with a "I hear it's a paperweight"
Might've been a nice surprise, who knows.

Otsuki-sensei looks very happy

Oh yeah, we also got a certificate of achievement which is well nicer than anything we ever got from Newcastle, then several official photos were taken:

Don't we look amazing.
Ooh I forgot to mention, the whole presentation was filmed by some guy with a huge official-looking camera
I have a copy on DVD if anybody would like to steal it from me, it's also in the Kawasaki Medical School library
Wonder if anybody's watched it.

Turns out all we needed to do on Friday was turn up to say thank you to the Dean and President, that's a nice way to end the week.
We said our thanks to Mr. Fukunaga and then went to see Mr. Kawasaki himself, he really does have an aura of importance.

He instantly got his 2 assistants to make us coffee and looked at Otsuki-sensei as if he had never seen him before (he probably hadn't)
Then we shared coffee with somebody who is probably on Japan's rich list:

Such a legend.
After coffee, he cracked out another gift for us:

It's a tie pin! Modelled beautifully by Tom-san

Then we had to hand all our free gear back (Tom-san & I stole our shoes) and bid a teary farewell to the hospital.

Alas, we would never use these again.

We went home to change and bask in freedom, then came back to say a quick farewell to the anaesthetists, especially Tomoko & Shiori, as they were by far the loveliest people I had met for quite a few years.

Then we said another goodbye to Takemi and told him we were off to get drunk.