Tachikawa, Japan

The plan for today was to spend time with the high school and junior high school students in the church. We met with them at 1 PM and played games for hours on end. But it was quite fun. Hiromi and Megumi helped us stay in charge over the wild ones, but I think Christi and Missy fall into that category too. After we finished with the games, we all walked to Yachiyo's apartment. As Yoshie says,

"Yachiyo is a twenty-eight year old doctor who looks like a junior higher."

But one thing is for sure, she is a good cook. We had so much food! And all of it was traditional Japanese dishes. Not just dinner either, we had jello and ice cream for dessert. Around 7:30 PM we all went up to the roof of the apartment to watch some excellent Japanese fireworks. The show started at 7:30 PM and finished an hour and a half later! It was amazing. Like every thing else here, they were better than the American stuff. Of course, fireworks were invented in this area of the world and they have been using them much longer. You could say that it was not unlike watching falling stars, only these stars flew up high an exploded into spinning discs of color flame, or gigantic mushroom clouds, or miniature rainbows.