The big fun for this weekend was two-fold. Saturday we hosted the 1st Annual Team Talent Show. It was great fun. Lots of laughs, and interesting talents.
We've added some pictures in our WebAlbum.
The highlights: Patty's Poi Poi, Jared's Poetry, the Logarithm Dance, Story-Time with Tricia, and Hannah's "Standing Around."
The other big deal this weekend is our teammate Jeni running in the prefecture-wide Eki-Den. The Eki-Den is a competitive race relay across the prefecture. After four years of running with the team, and hoping to get the chance to compete, Jeni was allowed to run this morning. We got up really early to see her run the first leg of the race. It was lots of fun.
Out of 51 teams, Jeni was 23 place in the first leg of the relay. Watch her run in the video below. The race had 16 different legs, with both male and female runners, aged from middle-school through adult. We watched the rest of the race this afternoon and the Tamura team finished 5th out of 51!!! Not too bad.
Christmas Break:
A special announcement: Hannah and I have a rather rare chance to travel to Germany this Christmas break with one of our teammates, Patty. We're really excited about it, and now it looks like it is going to work out. Please pray for the final details to fall into place. It will be a nice break from Japan for a week or so, and a once in a lifetime opportunity to share Christmas with our friend. We'll miss all our friends and family back in the States terribly, however.
Please keep us in your prayers as you are in ours.
God bless.
