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Today we had to present our Rube Goldberg machines. Our machine was decently complex:

After today, there will only be 2 full days left for me at KIT, but two weeks of traveling yet to come. With that in mind, today we put the finishing touches on our Rube Goldberg machine project, and tested it a bit. We only had one successful run through today, mainly because we also had to finish our posters and write our speeches for the presentation tomorrow. My partner mostly wrote both, which saved a lot of time then, but the speech was pretty long and difficult, so after class I practiced a lot.

Today we didn't have a ton of class, we only had a final for our Japanese for Science and Technology class that lasted about an hour, and then we just hung out until the second class started, which was our project class. I mostly just caught up on things I wanted to do. For example, I have a notebook that I've been carrying with me almost the whole time I've been here that I just write down words I hear in so I can remember them. I'm in the middle of typing it up on the computer and checking with a dictionary, but there's a ton of words.

In Japanese class we had another quiz today, and then learned a few more grammatical structures. In culture class we talked about some differences in what is considered manly or womanly in American culture versus Japanese culture, many stemming from how many people commented on the Japanese men's hairstyles.