Update: Part 2
And here's part two!
...now I just need to write this all out by hand. *dies*
May 14, 2006 (Sunday); Asuka’s room, Fukuyama House, Kyoto, Japan; 6 p.m.
Today was pretty mellow. I didn’t manage to get to church as early as I’d hoped, but we sang well in church. We did “Come Thou Fount” and while it was in English, everyone liked it. My throat managed to behave during the song, though I was a little deeper than I usually like and think I sounded a little funny. The American missionaries here thanked us for singing in English, they hadn’t heard a song in English for a while.
I think my arms are getting a little tan, my right more than my left. Though I think it’s largely from that long bike ride last Wednesday where we went to Ginkakuji, Gion, and Kiyomizudera. I’m outside a lot more here than I was in Provo, but I still haven’t burned yet. Maybe that’ll happen in Yokohama, dunno.
The rest of church went well and I understood some of what was being said, but since I don’t know church vocabulary a lot of it was still only bits and pieces. Meghan said she understood pretty much everything that was said in Sacrament meeting and I’ll admit I was more than a little jealous. Perhaps now I’ll finally try and study more, hm?
We stayed after a little while to have another ward prayer for the missionaries and then we had a huge banquet. I ended up eating the little fish again - I can’t help but see the eyes and then my gut twists up and everything makes me want to puke - but survived it. Perhaps talked too much about it, but that’s life. A sign of me being nervous, perhaps? The jelly roll cake thing they had was awesome and I wanted more.
Talked to Livia some as well as Meghan and Ricardo and generally had a good time. Probably am sinking into the habit of speaking too much English, but it does feel really nice to know that people are understanding me. Got Asuka to help me figure out if we should give Livia a ride home or not - we weren’t sure if her family was supposed to have already picked her up, or if they were still coming - and eventually got that figured out. I declined going to the fireside, mostly because she doubted they’d have it available in English and it would’ve been more painful than uplifting for me.
So I’m dinking around again and I organized my room again - hopefully for good, now - and hope that my notebooks are drying out all right. Luckily nothing was ruined by how wet my bag got yesterday, though a lot of my notebook suffered and my passport got bent a little funny.
And I’ve had Ramen now - Katsuichiro made it for us to eat after church. Twas good. Yay for good food!
Lots of love and best of luck to all,
bel/bobo
P.S. Happy Mother’s Day!
Pssst, does anyone know the tag to make text smaller? Or other spiff stuff? I can cross them out, do cuts, do links, and bold and italic, and underline... Is there anything else cool I should know?
...now I just need to write this all out by hand. *dies*
May 14, 2006 (Sunday); Asuka’s room, Fukuyama House, Kyoto, Japan; 6 p.m.
Today was pretty mellow. I didn’t manage to get to church as early as I’d hoped, but we sang well in church. We did “Come Thou Fount” and while it was in English, everyone liked it. My throat managed to behave during the song, though I was a little deeper than I usually like and think I sounded a little funny. The American missionaries here thanked us for singing in English, they hadn’t heard a song in English for a while.
I think my arms are getting a little tan, my right more than my left. Though I think it’s largely from that long bike ride last Wednesday where we went to Ginkakuji, Gion, and Kiyomizudera. I’m outside a lot more here than I was in Provo, but I still haven’t burned yet. Maybe that’ll happen in Yokohama, dunno.
The rest of church went well and I understood some of what was being said, but since I don’t know church vocabulary a lot of it was still only bits and pieces. Meghan said she understood pretty much everything that was said in Sacrament meeting and I’ll admit I was more than a little jealous. Perhaps now I’ll finally try and study more, hm?
We stayed after a little while to have another ward prayer for the missionaries and then we had a huge banquet. I ended up eating the little fish again - I can’t help but see the eyes and then my gut twists up and everything makes me want to puke - but survived it. Perhaps talked too much about it, but that’s life. A sign of me being nervous, perhaps? The jelly roll cake thing they had was awesome and I wanted more.
Talked to Livia some as well as Meghan and Ricardo and generally had a good time. Probably am sinking into the habit of speaking too much English, but it does feel really nice to know that people are understanding me. Got Asuka to help me figure out if we should give Livia a ride home or not - we weren’t sure if her family was supposed to have already picked her up, or if they were still coming - and eventually got that figured out. I declined going to the fireside, mostly because she doubted they’d have it available in English and it would’ve been more painful than uplifting for me.
So I’m dinking around again and I organized my room again - hopefully for good, now - and hope that my notebooks are drying out all right. Luckily nothing was ruined by how wet my bag got yesterday, though a lot of my notebook suffered and my passport got bent a little funny.
And I’ve had Ramen now - Katsuichiro made it for us to eat after church. Twas good. Yay for good food!
Lots of love and best of luck to all,
bel/bobo
P.S. Happy Mother’s Day!
Pssst, does anyone know the tag to make text smaller? Or other spiff stuff? I can cross them out, do cuts, do links, and bold and italic, and underline... Is there anything else cool I should know?