another adventure

yesterday morning was church here and i decided to go with some of the American stinters to new hope, a church near-by that has an English/Japanese service. it didn't start until 1:30pm so i knew that i could sleep in a bit.... yay. well, i was thinking, "i will maybe sleep in till 9, or 10am at the latest...." imagine my surprise when i woke up at 12:40pm!!!! ahhhhhh!!! it was a mad rush to not only get ready for church, wash my hair (in the sink...no time for a shower) and figure out how to get to the meeting place we decided on but also try to squeeze some kind of breakfast in (i settled on a very small bananna). yikes! i did made it thankfully, but it was quite a rush... haha. for now on i am setting an alarm even if i don't have to be somewhere till later in the day. i have no clue why i slept for 12 hours... i didn't really feel that tired... who knows. anyway...

the church service was awesome. the pastor is from Hawaii and so the service and the congregation somewhat reflected that. the worship was amazing and the message was totally right on. it was about loneliness and making god your source of comfort... how perfect.

i am totally loving japan and feel strangely comfortable eating heaps of rice and sweet potatoes with chopsticks, and today riding my bike was an absolute joy... its such a perfect fall day. i really love it here... allot.

today i am going to hang out with Laura, an American stinter, who (get this, small world) went to UCLA, is from orange county, goes to Francis Chan's church... knows people who go to ebc and is also craving Mexican food (she also doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, and is here in japan just kind of opening her heart to god and serving him until he directs her further...) there is another American stinter here who... this is crazy.. was in my room for a few days at cm2007 in Korea!! i saw her and i was like... wow... what the heck... where do i know her from!!!! lol fun stuff.

I'm really loving the food here and like i said, it all seems strangely normal... i don't know how to explain it. the "weirdest" thing i have eaten so far is raw squid legs but it was good... not that weird at all. its all how you think about it. this morning for breakfast i made rice and sweet potatoes (haha the easiest thing ever to make here) a fried egg, grapefruit and pearl-milk-tea (its actually Chinese.. black tea and soy milk with little square coconut jelly's in it...i will try to bring some back....) oh and of course coffee!! i found this awesome coffee that comes in a bunch of individual filters that sit on top of your coffee cup and you pour boiling water through it. perfect!!

alright well i am going to go... thank you all so much for the comments. dad... i was laughing so hard when i read your comments....haha!! and i love this whole blogging thing... so no i am not tired of it at all. mom... wish i was there (kinda...hehe)thanks for the updates on the doggies!!

i am not sure if pictures of japan will be available for awhile so don't hold your breath.. I'm using somewhat public computers at the student center and i don't know if they would be cool with me connecting my camera. i will check though.

love you all!!



haha i just remembered...today was my first attempt at getting to the student center by myself... i only made one wrong turn which wouldnt have been to big a deal but i went off a curb that made everything i was carrying shift and in the process my jacket got all tangled in the chain/gears.... =( so i had to walk for quite a bit and im still not sure how to get my jacket out... hahaha

never a dull moment!!

PS... the caps button doesn't work on this computer and the only way some of the words got capitalized was through the spell check... sorry!!