Well, I have a little time now, so I guess I should tell you what I was doing in Honda. The Chiba team helps teach at a missionary school, and several of the members of the team are teachers there. A new teacher arrived about a week ago, and so they had a welcome party for her. They invited me, so I had to travel about an hour both directions by myself. I had a lot of fun. There was about an even ratio of Japanese to Americans. We played three games of bilingual mafia. It was really fun! I still find that no one believes me when I tell them my age. Everyone seems to think I'm older than I really am.... I can't figure out why.... Instead of trying to get back to Tokyo on the 11:00 train, I decided to stay the night in Honda and come home on Sunday morning.
Sunday was good. We had a good church service, and I met several people that go there, both American and Japanese. After church the singers for next week came here to practice. We all had dinner together.
Yesterday was a fun day too. It was really relaxed for me. I did school with Aidan and Eastin, and not a whole lot for the rest of the day, except getting ready for school for today. Hinako-Chan is coming this afternoon to do school with Eastin. I have lots for them to do this week.... If they don't finish it all they can do it on Friday.... For dinner last night I had something that I never would have thought I liked. I had rice with dried seaweed in it, with a medium done poached egg on top. It was really good.
Oh! Today is Coen's first birthday!!! Happy Birthday Coen! He is about to cut his first tooth! We are so excited. We will not celebrate his birthday until Friday when Roger is home. I just got finished putting a loaf of rice flour bread in the oven a few minutes ago. I am excited to taste it. The thing I like about gluten free bread is that there is no rise time. It goes straight from mixing bowl to oven!
Well, I had better go for now, and see what the baby is getting into. I hear him banging stuff around....
All my love,
Hannah
Japanese (and pretty much all asians) in my opinion at least, look younger than they really are. I once knew a korean woman who I thought was like 19, I later found out that she was 30! You must write about that rice flour cake!!! Is it the same as mochi or is it actually like a bread? I have been looking for rice flour not made for mochi for forever!!! I like mochi, but I want to make steamed buns with rice flour. I have had them before, but never have been able to find the flour to make them with. They taste sooooo good.^_^
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