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first japan post

Hey from my new home in Japan!!

I'd like to begin by saying the Japanese are probably the weirdest people on the face of the earth, but also some of the most lovable. I've gotta also say that I've been so richly blessed by the Lord, and He has been providing for all of us in every way, almost even miraculously, since the beginning.

Flew in by myself, but ran into one of the students at Osaka airport. He found some kind of tea drink that tasted like liquified burnt meat. :/ And I found this crab. It's a sign on the glass elevator door, haha.



They took those of us that had arrived out to catch the low tide. Jeremy...


Uh, the wind blew my hair into an accidental buttcut.


Aaron...


Mark...


Wednesday night we had a Bible study, and it was also Natsuki's birthday! She's going to be our Japanese teacher.



A few more students arrived, and we spent the next day snorkeling at the coral reefs.

The girls.


The group.


Couldn't take my camera down there, but think like tropical fish, paradise, you being jealous...We swam to this cave in the cliffs, and it was all coral so you could climb pretty high up the side and then fall off into the water. Nothing else too eventful happened, except I stepped on a poisonous spiny urchin and have to limp around. Oh, and I peed in the ocean. Sorry mom and dad, but at least Jeanette will be proud.

Then we went to suicide cliffs. When the Americans were coming into Japan the leaders told the public to kill themselves or else they would be torchered by the Americans, so tragically many Japanese people jumped to their deaths off these cliffs.











Pastor Tommy. He's heading up the Bible college and is also pastor of Calvary Chapel Ginowan. Totally could be in the NWO on the side though.


You can kinda see Brad chillin.


Djudji from Austria!


Pastor Tommy's oldest daughter, Hannah.


Misty.


Father son duo, Keegan and Mark.


Doug trying to convice somebody to eat the weird bug.


Mark.


My annoyingly crooked lighthouse shots.




Went walkin around on some really rocky surface.








And the consequence...


Then we went to this beautiful resort. Japan has a law that prohibits private beaches, so you can chill even at the fanciest beaches.









The Japanese love western style weddings, so these are actually wedding chapels - not churches.



The next day we went snorkeling again at Kadina Marina.











More pics later. Gonna be a good semester.

posted by Haley B @ 1:29 PM