Wednesday mornings we do a district Kubari, so we all get together at the Kashiwa train station/shopping center and hand out Eikaiwa flyers. I met a girl named Mari, a Jehovah's Witness, and she was soooo sweet. She even gave me candy AND her email address!!! So we're going to keep in touch, and maybe teach a Jdub! :)
At Eikaiwa there's a student who has a really big crush on me, and he says he loves me and runs away almost every week. I usually just smile and ignore the fact he's saying anything. But this past week he just came up and tried to hug me out of nowhere! I panicked! I didn't realize that in such a short time a hug from a male would be so scary! (he's like 20...by the way) Here's to hoping I won't be completely socially awkward when I come home.
Also I had cold-stone ice cream and a turkey sandwich on wheat bread. I felt SO at home, it was great. They don't sell turkey here at all...so I haven't been able to get my daily sandwich fix in for a while.
So here's something interesting about Japan: We had zone meeting in Matsudo on thursday (about half an hour by train) and as we're stopped and people are getting on the train this punk guy gets on and accidentally gets his foot caught in some nerdy guy's bag and he starts kicking it around like a punk. (you know the type). Anyway the punk sits down next to the other man and the other man says something to him under his breath (probably like, what a jerk thanks for kicking my bag around the train...atually we're in Japan, so he probably apologized) I was nervous that the punk was gonna start chewing the nerdy guy out or something because the punk bumps his shoulder like "excuse me, what did you just say"! But then they're all the sudden friends and the punk is slapping the nerd's knee and sharing his mints. Even when the punk's getting off, he pretty much trips out of the train because he's waving goodbye to his new pal. I was so confused. I wish I could have recorded it, it was so interesting. Japan has no garbage, and no violence, and everyone's so friendly! At least that's what it seems like!
I did however get my helmet STOLEN yesterday, so Japan's not perfect I guess.
Today I spent the morning in Tokyo and got to do a temple session. :) It was great, but sad because that was our LAST temple day as a mission before the split so we got a picture of the whole Tokyo Mission!
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