Today I had a final exam and a 8 page per due, pretty normal for finals. However, at around 11am this morning, something sounding like an air raid warning went off at school with the following message: (rough translation) Swine influenza has hit Osaka! School is shutting down for the rest of the week. Please leave campus immediately, all school institutions will be closed as of 3:30pm today.
As for right now, the decision is for exchange students to still finishing exams, but since the japanese students have no more class for the week, the international studies office has some serious considering to do about keeping the foreign students here.
People are acting like this is the next sequel to 28 Days Later (a fantastic zombie movie if you have time for a good movie to scare you out of your mind). I am half-expecting the school to start being over run with brain-eating half-dead japanese girls in their 6 inch neon pink high heels!
I think this is all great fun but, to top it off, my host father got extremely sick last night and is now currently in the hospital getting it checked out. Mind you, people go the hospital here for head colds and fevers (likewise they put band-aids on bruises as if they have some magical healing power) but my host mother seems really concerned that he might have gotten it since her works in downtown osaka.
I will keep everyone updated, I am perfectly fine and enjoying the crazed hysteria as an outsider who knows this is just Japan over reacting.
Be home in a week!
EDIT: CLASSES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS. I might still have to turn in my paper on wednesday but for now look forward to crazy adventures.
EDIT EDIT: My host Dad does not have swine flu! Yay!
OMG Japan. Love it.
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