Looking at the window of Starbucks this week. You can see the snow covered street and snow falling.
It has snowed for the past seven days here. But the snow has been light most days, so we haven’t had a lot of accumulation. The temperatures have been in the 20′s F. most of the time. The forecast for the week ahead calls for more snow and cold weather. I wanted to get back to walking 10,000 steps a day, so I made an effort to get started back this week. I made it for the past 5 days. Today is especially cold, so I think I’ll rest from my walking today.
At Kid's Club yesterday. The kids are rolling out the dough to make sugar cookies.
This week was fairly quiet for me. I got together for coffee with Saiki and Koji this week, and had a good visit with them.
Liz makes a special treat for each grade she teaches once a year. This past week she made chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies for her second grade junior high school students. She made eight dozen of each one which is amazing using the little convection oven that we have here. It is about the size of a microwave oven.
Liz and Keiko at Kid's Club telling a Bible story.
She also made sugar cookie dough to take to the Kid’s Club on Saturday for them to make cookies.
Friday night we had four friends over to play games. Liz had some cookies left over from school and she made some guacamole dip. We played nertz and had a good time. We also watched a Nooma video titled Rain and discussed it some. I really had a good time visiting with everyone.
Yuki, Makiko, Chikage, Eugene, and Liz about to start another hand of nertz.
I’m now about halfway through the Joe Gibbs’ book, and I’m really enjoying it. Here is a quote from his book that I liked, “I continue to enjoy the happiness, significance, and purpose that the Bible promises to those who trust in Jesus.” I have found this to be true in my life. And here is another one I liked, “The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and the ethical and moral teachers who have been revered by man is that the teachers tried to make bad people good, but Jesus came to make dead people live.”
Chikage, Makiko, Yuki, Eugene, me, and Liz on game night
I also got another book to read this week titled The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict. It is about patterns of Japanese Culture. My Japanese teacher, Mrs. Kobayashi, loaned it to me, and I’m looking forward to reading it after I finish Joe Gibbs’ book. I finished reading John and Romans this past week and started reading Acts and 1 Corinthians along with continuing to read in Exodus and Psalms. I did well on my kanji test last week and I’m studying ten new kanji for this week. Well that’s all I know for now from here in Nagano.
