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So where did we leave you off? FUJIGAOKA is a pretty great place!
We worked in a kids club for three day which went pretty well! We each had our group Kiara was yellow with the cute little kiddlets ages 4-6 and some 7 i think. Allision had green and her kiddos were around 5-7 ish? and then I had the older kids in BLUE team ages 7-10. I think we all had a pretty good time with the kids. DAY ONE: Well we got here and kids started coming right away! 28 of them in total. Our morning was filled with songs and stories and team time. Which we mostly spent playing games and preparing for out big (actually small) show-ish thing... i forget what its callled...THE PRESENTATION. right. So kids here aren`t really shy I really thought they would be but once you engage them they are like monkeys! But we loved every moment with them. After lunch we made a craft and we played a game. The game went pretty well and was lots of fun I`m just happy it worked out! That was mainly the first day at kids club. After that we had some time before we had to go back to our host family so we went to STARBUCKS for team time. Which by the way was sooo good and just like at home! So we had a really good team time and we walked back to our home! We played cards with Yuto and Nanaha the two little kids of the family we ended up playing this Japanese card game which was so much fun. Dinner was amazing that night! Had more sushi and chicken and more good food. Japanese food is soooooo good:) Ken the father had a coworker over for dinner to speak english with us. Dinner was great spent the night playing video games singing national anthems and eating. Overall we loved this family and were so sad that we had to leave them the fallowing day!
DAY TWO: of kids club
Was spent about the same way love love love these kids. They just give us hugs and love being around us and it makes me just want to be around them. So pretty much we love this. We went to the park today NO RAIN. Which was super exciting so we played some red light green light and a few other games. Saw a grasshopper that look just like grass it was so cool! We played the game with waterballoons and buckets they were fun. The day was so much fun even though it was really hot and there were alot of bugs it still went really well:) After kids club ended we headed to STARBUCKS again. Yes we liked it that much, and we need to have team time again and this night we went to different host families for night. So after we went to starbucks there was a farwell dinner for Wendy! It was with her english students most of them were adults but the lunch was fun. THERE WAS SO MUCH FOOD. Allison and I tried eel which wasnt too bad. The dinner was super nice got to talk to alot of different people and play with some of the kids. But the night was so cute because someone from each class gave a speach to Wendy and it was so wonderful it almost made me cry:( But she will be back here in a year SO ITS ALL GOING TO BE OKAY. but it was a really nice dinner! That night we split up Kiara and I went to stay at the Hashimotos and Allison stayed at the Kawasakis. We both had a great time meeting them and loved playing with their adorable kids.
THIRD DAY: of kids club
Okay, so, this was the last day of kids club and everyone practiced for their presentation infront of the parents. Then, we played games and did the same sort of deal as the other two days... I think truthfully I can not really remember the details of that day. So, yeah then we ate lunch and what not and practiced more and then the parents started to arrive. So my group the yellow team all introduced themselves and sang head and shoulders knees and toes, we even sped up .. it was pretty impressive oh and we sang God is so Good. It was a pretty impressive preformance and truthfully I did not think it could be topped. However, Allisons team whipped out the hand bells and played Jesus Loves Me it definetly raised the bar for Luisas team. But Lu`s team did a Skit about Zeccheaus which was the icing on the cake. So, the preformances were great. However, I forgot to mention that we used face paint before these preformances. So, Allison was a huge scary looking butterfly... it was frightning, I was a rainy day... it was just weird but Wendy convinced me it was cute and Lu was a lion.. which I honestly could not take her seriously in. Meanwhile the children have barely any facepaint on... it was an unfortunate situation... oh and Wendy was a tiger.. I forgot to mention that before sorry Wendy. Okay... so yeah anyways that was all good. Then, we went to Starbucks... once again. And we all ordered drinks but then we decided to be fat north americans and we went back an got pastries. Then we took pics in starbucks because we are that cool. and one of the workers offered to take a picture of us all together with my disposable camera courtasy of Jayne. But, we were like no that is not necessary and then we saw a barista at the counter in the background lean into our shot it was funny but yeah interesting. Then, lets see we went to another photo booth or pelicula thing with Allisons home stay family. We took pics with the little girls and it was a good time those things are soo much fun. Then we went back to our seperate home stays and made some good memories with the fam jams. One highlet for me and Lu was watching the 9 year old dance to Michael Jackson he was sooo into it it was great... Lu danced with him to thriller... but he outshined her a little.
Day 4 (Not Kids Club)
So we were supposed to go to a theme park Saturday which apparently had great roller costers. BUT IT WAS RAINING!!!!!!!!!!!! I was soo upset I was really looking forward to that... but when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. So, we went to go make pottery instead. That was sooo much fun none of us had ever done it before it was legit really cool and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then we went to an outlet mall and shopped..more...not like we need it ...but we did... and bought more....even though are suitcases are packed.... and we are on a missions trip...so I don`t think we should be shopping...but we did...oops. Then, we went out to dinner which was so yummy but I am not going to get into this considering we talk about food way to much! But, I will tell you this oh wait first we got our own private rooms in this restaurant which is legit really cool. Anyways, getting to what I was going to tell you when we left all the workers we ran into said an enthusiastic bye to us. Then, we looked behind us and the whole kitchen staff was peeking out of a door and waving at us. It was so cute and funny, we felt like celebrities.. like really we are not cool enough for that kind of attention. Okay, so when we got home they gave us hagen das ice cream which really topped off the day quite nicely.
So, now we are on to today. So, today was Sunday... that means we went to Church. We were slightly late..whoops. But, the service was nice, and the lunch after was enjoyable aswell. We ate sooo much but it was sooo good. Wendy dressed up in her yukata which was really cute.. I enjoyed it. And yeah the farewell potluck for Wendy and welcome to us went very well. We did our drime and Lu and Alli read their testimonies. Wendy gave a speech in Japanese which was impressive. We sang a couple english songs which was sweet, watched a home video... good times. Then we went back to Starbucks for team time. It was good, as usual... and the evening finished with the onsen, again!!! I love it...
So we've got to go now, but this trip has been filled with more classic Luisa moments than any other, so we'll leave you wondering about that. Maybe next post you'll find out what happened most recently. Kiara was crying, she laughed so hard.
Love and peace,
Kiara, Luisa, and Allison
So where did we leave you off? FUJIGAOKA is a pretty great place!
We worked in a kids club for three day which went pretty well! We each had our group Kiara was yellow with the cute little kiddlets ages 4-6 and some 7 i think. Allision had green and her kiddos were around 5-7 ish? and then I had the older kids in BLUE team ages 7-10. I think we all had a pretty good time with the kids. DAY ONE: Well we got here and kids started coming right away! 28 of them in total. Our morning was filled with songs and stories and team time. Which we mostly spent playing games and preparing for out big (actually small) show-ish thing... i forget what its callled...THE PRESENTATION. right. So kids here aren`t really shy I really thought they would be but once you engage them they are like monkeys! But we loved every moment with them. After lunch we made a craft and we played a game. The game went pretty well and was lots of fun I`m just happy it worked out! That was mainly the first day at kids club. After that we had some time before we had to go back to our host family so we went to STARBUCKS for team time. Which by the way was sooo good and just like at home! So we had a really good team time and we walked back to our home! We played cards with Yuto and Nanaha the two little kids of the family we ended up playing this Japanese card game which was so much fun. Dinner was amazing that night! Had more sushi and chicken and more good food. Japanese food is soooooo good:) Ken the father had a coworker over for dinner to speak english with us. Dinner was great spent the night playing video games singing national anthems and eating. Overall we loved this family and were so sad that we had to leave them the fallowing day!
DAY TWO: of kids club
Was spent about the same way love love love these kids. They just give us hugs and love being around us and it makes me just want to be around them. So pretty much we love this. We went to the park today NO RAIN. Which was super exciting so we played some red light green light and a few other games. Saw a grasshopper that look just like grass it was so cool! We played the game with waterballoons and buckets they were fun. The day was so much fun even though it was really hot and there were alot of bugs it still went really well:) After kids club ended we headed to STARBUCKS again. Yes we liked it that much, and we need to have team time again and this night we went to different host families for night. So after we went to starbucks there was a farwell dinner for Wendy! It was with her english students most of them were adults but the lunch was fun. THERE WAS SO MUCH FOOD. Allison and I tried eel which wasnt too bad. The dinner was super nice got to talk to alot of different people and play with some of the kids. But the night was so cute because someone from each class gave a speach to Wendy and it was so wonderful it almost made me cry:( But she will be back here in a year SO ITS ALL GOING TO BE OKAY. but it was a really nice dinner! That night we split up Kiara and I went to stay at the Hashimotos and Allison stayed at the Kawasakis. We both had a great time meeting them and loved playing with their adorable kids.
THIRD DAY: of kids club
Okay, so, this was the last day of kids club and everyone practiced for their presentation infront of the parents. Then, we played games and did the same sort of deal as the other two days... I think truthfully I can not really remember the details of that day. So, yeah then we ate lunch and what not and practiced more and then the parents started to arrive. So my group the yellow team all introduced themselves and sang head and shoulders knees and toes, we even sped up .. it was pretty impressive oh and we sang God is so Good. It was a pretty impressive preformance and truthfully I did not think it could be topped. However, Allisons team whipped out the hand bells and played Jesus Loves Me it definetly raised the bar for Luisas team. But Lu`s team did a Skit about Zeccheaus which was the icing on the cake. So, the preformances were great. However, I forgot to mention that we used face paint before these preformances. So, Allison was a huge scary looking butterfly... it was frightning, I was a rainy day... it was just weird but Wendy convinced me it was cute and Lu was a lion.. which I honestly could not take her seriously in. Meanwhile the children have barely any facepaint on... it was an unfortunate situation... oh and Wendy was a tiger.. I forgot to mention that before sorry Wendy. Okay... so yeah anyways that was all good. Then, we went to Starbucks... once again. And we all ordered drinks but then we decided to be fat north americans and we went back an got pastries. Then we took pics in starbucks because we are that cool. and one of the workers offered to take a picture of us all together with my disposable camera courtasy of Jayne. But, we were like no that is not necessary and then we saw a barista at the counter in the background lean into our shot it was funny but yeah interesting. Then, lets see we went to another photo booth or pelicula thing with Allisons home stay family. We took pics with the little girls and it was a good time those things are soo much fun. Then we went back to our seperate home stays and made some good memories with the fam jams. One highlet for me and Lu was watching the 9 year old dance to Michael Jackson he was sooo into it it was great... Lu danced with him to thriller... but he outshined her a little.
Day 4 (Not Kids Club)
So we were supposed to go to a theme park Saturday which apparently had great roller costers. BUT IT WAS RAINING!!!!!!!!!!!! I was soo upset I was really looking forward to that... but when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. So, we went to go make pottery instead. That was sooo much fun none of us had ever done it before it was legit really cool and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Then we went to an outlet mall and shopped..more...not like we need it ...but we did... and bought more....even though are suitcases are packed.... and we are on a missions trip...so I don`t think we should be shopping...but we did...oops. Then, we went out to dinner which was so yummy but I am not going to get into this considering we talk about food way to much! But, I will tell you this oh wait first we got our own private rooms in this restaurant which is legit really cool. Anyways, getting to what I was going to tell you when we left all the workers we ran into said an enthusiastic bye to us. Then, we looked behind us and the whole kitchen staff was peeking out of a door and waving at us. It was so cute and funny, we felt like celebrities.. like really we are not cool enough for that kind of attention. Okay, so when we got home they gave us hagen das ice cream which really topped off the day quite nicely.
So, now we are on to today. So, today was Sunday... that means we went to Church. We were slightly late..whoops. But, the service was nice, and the lunch after was enjoyable aswell. We ate sooo much but it was sooo good. Wendy dressed up in her yukata which was really cute.. I enjoyed it. And yeah the farewell potluck for Wendy and welcome to us went very well. We did our drime and Lu and Alli read their testimonies. Wendy gave a speech in Japanese which was impressive. We sang a couple english songs which was sweet, watched a home video... good times. Then we went back to Starbucks for team time. It was good, as usual... and the evening finished with the onsen, again!!! I love it...
So we've got to go now, but this trip has been filled with more classic Luisa moments than any other, so we'll leave you wondering about that. Maybe next post you'll find out what happened most recently. Kiara was crying, she laughed so hard.
Love and peace,
Kiara, Luisa, and Allison
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ReplyDeleteyour welcome for the camera knew it would come in handy lol its not the japanese have that kind of technology like disposable cameras with film anyways.... lol and i dont think you talk about food too much... acually you dont talk about it enough.
ReplyDeleteim hungry.
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