Friday, September 29, 2006

bums

The other day Nicki and I went out with Natsuki to some shops. We took a lot of purikura (little tiny pictures you can edit) and just hung out.

I was trying to find some engrish shirts, but all I could find was this.




Sillies.

sachuko-san!

Monday night the whole crew went to Sachuko-san's house for a huge dinner. She's pretty amazing. She taught us the Japanese expression for, "even though we've just met, we're like family".

Not gonna lie, I flipped out when I saw the smorgasbord. So good. Pretty much tempura and sushi and teriyaki and everything else that's good and Japanese. My おしり is getting way too huge...













Octopus tentacles still goin strong.



Does anyone else find nori unusually sticky? (beta beta dame desu yo!)




Sachuko-san shared a little bit with us about her heart for the widows of Nepal. It was really encouraging to see her faith and her willingness to act. She was saying that even though she's older, she knows that God will continue to use her throughout her entire life. God's doing some awesome things through his faithful believers in Japan.

Thankfully
  • Shandog
  • and
  • Pastor T
  • have pics of Sachuko-san, plus some sweet extras.

    We all prayed for God's blessing over her ministry.

    Thursday, September 28, 2006

    julia

    This is Julia. We're pretty much great friends, except she asks me for money every time I see her. She's Liz and David's twirpy.







    Way cool fam, way cute kiddies.

    And only 79 days till I get to see my other lil mija!! But who's counting...

    Wednesday, September 27, 2006

    awesome beach

    There was this beach connected to old Oki. Dude, woah, it was like paradise.
    ほんとに ほんとに うつくしい










    Even before WWII the Japanese would go cut out blocks from the coral to build with, hence the missing blocks of coral.








    Sorry J, another nature walk. I found this guy who was way to big for his shell, so I named him Jimmy. Then I ate him. JK.

    They're kinda cute though, huh.


    I still have one of these guys' spikes in my heel. Totally stink.








    We managed to play on this pier for a long time before gettin kicked off.


    Gnarly sea cucumbers. They call them the waterguns of the sea, and sadly, Mark got shot in the eye.

    Jeremy's always the one pickin up the weird things.


    Then Doug had this great idea...






    He kinda looked like a caveman/mermaid.


    Isn't that cute.



    Then his arms fell off.

    old oki

    Monday we went to this place that looked like pre-WWII Okinawa. I think I'm in love with old Japan.

    The guitar lookin things are traditional Okinawan instruements called sanshin, made out of snake skin. かっこいいいいい...






    Shanshan with a shishi, tee hee.


    Well, we found out it actually costs money to get in, and since five bucks is too much for Bible college students slash missionaries, we opted out. But some of us still took a little detour.




    Pure stealth people.