Week 103
Mission Log
I had a great birthday. Thanks for the card. I don`t feel
twenty-one. I still feel like I`m seventeen. My driver`s license
expired this week. I hope that it isn't too much of a hassle to get it
renewed. Also, after getting home, I have to register pretty quickly so
that I can vote in the big election. I`m not registered yet.
To go from
Kobe to Osaka cost about 400 yen. From Osaka to Kyoto is about 600
yen. From Kobe to Kyoto is about 1000 yen. From Okinawa to Sapporo is
about 30,000 yen. From Umeda station in Osaka to Nishinomiya church is
about 260 yen.
It`s still rainy now, but the
rainy season will be done before you get here. It will be the hottest
time of the year. It will just be really hot and really humid all of
the time. It probably won`t really rain at all. Even at night, or if a
typhoon comes, it still doesn't really get cold. It`ll still be pretty
hot.
I had a pretty interesting adventure on my birthday. We left early
in the morning to go to a training in Kobe for all of the trainers and
trainees. It was pretty good, and they gave us COSTCO pizza for lunch.
We got done at around four and it was time to go back to Otsu. We were
in a hurry because we had a couple of lessons planned. We had English
class at seven and two different families coming for lessons at 6:30.
We were planning on splitting with some members so that we could teach
both lessons at the same time. We rode the train from Kobe to Osaka.
Then, in Osaka, we had to switch trains. We were hurrying through the
stations because we didn't want to be late for our appointments. I`m
leading the way to the platform because my companion does'`t know where
to go. I see the train we want to ride and I get on it. The doors
close behind me. I turn around to see my companion on the other side of
the doors. He got scared and didn't step on the train before the doors
closed. I watch him through the window as I ride the train out of the
station, by myself. Using the cell phone, I calculate that the next
good train from Osaka to Otsu will leave at exactly 5:00. I figure that
if I make it back by then, I`ll be OK. I get off at the first stop,
run through the station and find a good train that got me back to Osaka
at 4:56. I expected to be able to meet back up with my companion
there. He was'`t there. It wasn't 5:00 and he wasn't in the station.
That means that he had boarded some other train. I get on the 5:00
train and ride to the church in Otsu by myself. I arrive at 6:00. I
meet up with some members there and teach both families the gospel, by
myself. Because my companion doesn't have a cell phone, I can`t contact
him or have any idea where he is. He finally does find his way to the
church building at about 7:00pm. We then teach a normal English class
and had a good time. We had to walk from the church to the apartment,
though, and didn't get back until 10:15.
I have to get going before my companion wanders off again. Talk to you later. Bye.
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