Last week I was away and off-line for a few days, so I didn’t get to post a re-cap. So this week I’ll attempt to sum up the past two weeks concisely, in point-form.
- Last Wednesday afternoon, I hopped the Shinkansen to Yokohama and found my way to the Wesleyan mission house, where I was hosted hospitably by the Probsts, WGM missionaries.
- Thursday was spent hanging out with fellow-GP-missionary Andrea, and our boss’s boss’s boss Wesleyan General Superintendent Dr. Jerry Pence, along with his two sons, sight-seeing in Tokyo. Photos will follow when I get around to it.
- Friday, Saturday and Sunday I attended several sessions of the Immanuel Church’s annual national conference. Friday night I gave a testimony in the evening service, and Saturday I gave greetings — in Japanese! — during one of the business meetings.
- Sunday night after conference I came back to Nagoya. Tired.
- Monday morning I wrote, survived, and passed my Japanese exam.
- Tuesday morning I had orientation and a placement exam for my full-time course.
- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (today) I had class in the morning and studied in the afternoons. So far the new class is super-easy because we’re back to square one, covering the stuff I was doing in January, which was already pretty easy since I’d studied it before. But it’ll get much harder pretty soon I’m sure.
- Yesterday I also shot some photos in Nagoya Central Park and did some recording for a soon-to-be-released (maybe even tonight) podcast, in which I talk more about conference, the needs of Japan and the Japanese church, my studies and what’s going on here at the Nagoya church. Check back soon!
And that’s a wrap for now.