7/10/10

We just got back from Nara. Sorry for the no posts for the past few days, nobody brought their laptops because we weren't sure if there was going to be internet or not. I'll try to recap from friday.

-Friday-
We didn't go to campus on friday because we went straight to Nara after our morning meeting. It was a pretty rainy day, and all I can remember right now was that our train was an hour and a half long. Once we got to our hotel room, we pretty much just hung out until dinner. The hotel served us a traditional style Japanese dinner, which was very, interesting. It was pretty hard to distinguish what we were eating, so I just closed my eyes and ate. After dinner, we explored a little bit of Nara (aka, walked down the street to the convenience store). We had a late meeting in which we talked about our team norms and cleared the air. It was a good time to just express any frustrations and get things off our chest. The meeting concluded around 10pm, and we all went to bed.

-today-
We woke up to a traditional Japanese breakfast. There was salmon, miso, pineapple, raw eggs, and orange juice. It was interesting, just like dinner. After breakfast, we had a team meeting and we talked about our contacts. The meeting was kind of rushed because we had to check out of the hotel around 11am. After our meeting we went to Nara park! The deer at this park were super aggressive and weren't shy around humans. In fact, when people buy deer crackers at the little kiosks, the deer would flock around the person and harass them until they're fed. Yep, it happened to me. It was super strange because the male deers have long antlers, and they're not afraid to use them. I can testify to this. We basically spent the whole day at the park. We ate lunch and visited the HUGE buddha statue. That was pretty much it, then we traveled back to Kyoto.

There's only about 9 more days on campus, so time is beginning to be an issue. But I know that God will still do amazing things within these next 2 weeks. Please pray that our team will finish strong and that our strength and stamina will be restored. It hasn't felt like we've been here for 3 weeks, but this is coming from the guy who would like to live here for a while.