Well this week there were several adventures here in the inaka (countryside) of Kita Rokko of varying degrees of ridiculousness, but I'll start with the investigators.
Maho: So we met with her twice this week and it's been going both very well and very not. Like she's willing to listen and has a lot of questions. Like the "wait this doesn't make sense in my current view of the world" sort of questions, which is a good start I guess, but she may well be too stubborn to change that view, which for obvious reasons may prove problematic. But she's made friends with Wilkin Kyoudai which is way good, if not a little stressful because he low-key judges our teaching skills and it gives me minor anxiety.
Kunitsu-san: we got to do a lesson with her again finally. Turns out she was slammed with work and studying for this exam that'll let her get a new, less taihen job. So we rushed in there with the Spirit and challenged her to read and pray everyday with the promise that if she did so she'd be able to focus better and get the job she wants. Hopefully she rises to it.
Matsumoto-san: so we visited her this week in an attempt to set up an appointment to teach her family history, but what ended up happening instead was we bonded over cute family photos, jamming for a second on a traditional Japanese harp, and set up an appointment to make tacos together because Jones Shimai went to culinary school and is Jouzu(TM). Also she gave us super expensive fancy soumen it was insane. Like you know how there's like different color belts in tae kwon do and stuff? Well apparently soumen is the same. We had black belt soumen. π₯ I feel like my taste buds are not equipped to properly appreciate it. (they were, however, more than equipped to appreciate the $7 grapes we were gifted by an eikaiwa student. I've never eaten a more delicious grape in my life)
In other news, we've been trying really hard to find new people to teach but finding through our own efforts has been particularly difficult as of late. Maybe we just need to be better at stopping people when they are there, but also we can walk for 45 minutes and see maybe three people. We decided to walk the hour and a half to Sanda (because okane (money) is sukunai (few) and we didn't wanna spend $5 on a bus and also we still don't have bikes) and we saw exactly three people that whole time. I don't know where the people are. It's kind of frustrating. We want to do more service, but we're struggling to find a good place to start. We're working on it.
But hey this next week we have quite a few appointments so that's exciting, and hopefully we can find some more service opportunities at a community center. Not sure how those things really work, but we'll see how it goes.
Now for some adventure stories! π
So last Sunday night, Jones ε§ε¦Ή was ranting to me about how men as cool/wonderful/nice/beautiful/etc as her favorite TV show characters don't exist so she's always disappointed. (incorrect, incidentally) And the next day (P-day) we went to this huge mall in Kobe called Harborland with Maho. It was jamming and there was this Turkish ice cream stand. And lo and behold turns out Heavenly Father has the best sense of humor because the guy running the stand just so happened to have the looks and vibe of two of her favorite characters, Tangled's Flynn Rider and Transformers' Knockout combined into one person. We saw this dude and just looked at each other like πππππ trying not to laugh super hard. So we talked to the guy for a bit and I bought ice cream because it looked way good (it was delicious btw) and APPARENTLY according to Jones ε§ε¦Ή he totally flirted with me and it went right over my head like a fly ball over a six year old baseball player on a Major League field. I didn't find out until Jones ε§ε¦Ή started dying of laughter after the fact. She calls him the Turkish Delight now (thus the email title). We laughed about this for like three days straight. Also nihonjins get a kick out of it when we tell the story. #sistermissionarylife
Also recently we were housing a bit and ping ponged into this lady who came out and spoke fluent English to us. But she gave off this really creepy "I will come and suck out your soul in the night" vibe and was like "ah, young people can remember things so easily. It just sticks in your braiiiinnnnnn~" We were very uncomfortable.
Also we made lots of takoyaki this week. None of it was real. The first time was a powdered mini takoyaki kit and the second time was an experiment with TACOyaki. @levi:❤️❤️❤️ it's all for u bean.
When we visited Matsumoto-san we got to jam with her on this way cool traditional Japanese instrument that I don't know the name of. She let us take videos.
ζγγ¦γγΎγ！ ππ
Sherwood ε§ε¦Ή
1.) my new favorite recipe found in the apartment
2.) us + Indonesian girls + Viatnamese dudes
3.) the harbor!
4.) we live in the inaka
5.) #squad
6-7.) best comps
8.) Maho takes more pictures of us than we do
9.) lookin goodπ
10.) took Maho to indo curry for the first time
11.) new sunglasses!
12.) life is good
13.) we have matching anklets
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