Ohiyo!

Hope everyone enjoyed the Labor Day weekend. Sorry to hear that the east coast was pretty soggy for most of it! Turns out that the typhoon that is heading this way has been down-graded from it's "super typhoon" status, but it will still bring us a bunch of rain by the end of the week.

A few updates from here: I got my license today and am thoroughly enjoying the freedom of getting around - though I will be Josh's taxi for the week since he can't take his test until Friday....no big deal! We sign the papers for our house today and will "move in" tomorrow. We're able to borrow a bed and other necessary furniture until ours arrives in a few weeks, so it still won't feel quite like home, but it's a step in the right direction!

I did have my interview on Friday at the English teaching school and it went well. I was offered the "positions" but unfortunately they are all in the evenings since that is when people are not working or at regular school. I decided to take just one night of work for now, so I will teach classes on Thursday nights to the employees of the Yokosuka City Office. I will go to the office for several hours and teach about conversational language they will need to help out city tourists who are English speaking. Hopefully, I can find some individual students to work with during the day.

Josh's event on Friday went well also! He met the mayor of Tokyo, delivered a talk about the process of an emergency evacuation, and taught the crowd how to eat MRE's (the Meals Ready to Eat that they have for combat/training) He got lots of compliments and is in the military newspaper for Japan! (though we haven't seen it yet) And.....he didn't even get sea sick!