Friday and Saturday in Japan went great! God continued to bless us as more and more kids kept showing up!
We celebrated Kyle’s birthday today (Friday). It was a lot of fun! In honor of the occasion we went and bought iron on letters and made him a tee-shirt with his “japanese name” on it. We started the trend of creating new names with Chad when we renamed him “Chado”in order for ease of pronounciation for our japanese friends. For lack of a cleverer name we decided on “Kyroo” for Kyle. This tranlates over to “frog” in English and is no relfection on Kyle’s character but it sounded cool so we stuck with it. So now Chado and Kyroo both have memorial teeshirts to remember celebrating their birthdays in Japan. Chado’s shirt has a varity of uses, but you can ask him about that:)
After the kids program we spent a lot of time just hanging out with the parents and kids that stuck around. Chado has now solidified his teeny bopper idol status in Japan as he had several of the preteen girls flocking around him, chasing him and staring googly eyed at him as he played the guitar. Next time he visits Japan we will need some type of body guard entourage because he is so popular!
The ladies got to try out authentic Kimonos and we have pictures! Be sure to check out the picture site on Facebook to see how great they looked!
On Saturday the guys gave the ladies the day off and we taught the language class. It was definently a new experince for us! The ladies had deon so awesome all week we just treid to get by. We had a great time later as we conversed and shared about our famlies in one-on-one conversations. This continued through lunch as we got to share about God with several unchurched ladies. God worked through the language barrier and make the time very special to us!
Saturday night the church had a massive barbeque for us! We never lacked for food the entire trip and the barbeque was no exception. We had the Japanese version of Hotdogs, several other Japanese foods, and even some Korean barbeque! We finished it all off with smores, a multinational universal snack. The misquitos came out and had their fill also, they seem to like forgeiners and consider them some kind of delacacy.
July 18, 2009 at 11:50 pm |
Ask Chado about the BBQ. He didn’t like it at all. He didn’t like the cold pot of small hot dogs. He ate one out of respect, but didn’t like it. He later found those were the uncooked hotdogs. Poor guy!