Updates!

Hi again! We’re still counting down the days (3!!!) until we have internet access from our house….now that we’ve moved off base it’s even more of a pain to drive back to base to get service. Anyway, we’ve had another eventful week here in Japan. We got to “mow” our lawn with a weed eater, clean the mold off the outside of our car (love the humidity!), and plant some cool flowers in our little garden patch! For all you garden buffs, we planted cosmos, chrysanthemums, petunias, ferns, and a few plants I had never seen before. (and unless I learn Kanji sometime soon, I’ll probably never know what they are!) Then we also got some oregano, mint, basil, sage, and cilantro for a little herb garden along the side of our house. (although I tried to plant them today and I kept running into pipes for the house – oops!)
Josh had his first chance to organize a helicopter evacuation from a ship that was out at sea, so that was exciting. (a sailor’s fell and injured his leg and they were very concerned about it) Overall, he is doing a lot more paperwork than he would like to do, but he’s learning a lot about adult medicine and we’re still enjoying having more time together!

I taught my first night of English classes last night….yikes! The director of the school requested that I teach on Tuesday nights until the Thursday classes begin, so that I can get practice using the curriculum. I teach two classes of high school students and one class of first year college students. We will work mostly on conversational English, which is something that they do not stress in their English classes at school. It was a little stressful for my first time ever teaching English to non-English speakers, but the students are very nice and it will be a great way to help them and it will help me to learn more about Japanese culture as well. All in all it should be a good experience!