Ready for the Third Week of Camp!

I just realized that my summer in Japan is already almost a third of the way over.  Before I left for Japan, many people told me I would love it here, but I didn't realize exactly how correct they were.  Life here has been a blast, and I hope that someday I can come back to Japan for at least a little while!

The second week of camp seemed to go by extremely fast, and I enjoyed getting to know the kids in my room better.  It was a busy week with meetings every weeknight except Thursday.  The different sites in Japan are creating lip dub videos to compete with each other, so we spent a few nights working on our video, in addition to our regular Sunday night meetings to decorate the center and Wednesday night whole staff meetings.  Our Friday field trip took us to the Cup Noodles museum in Yokohama, where we got to make our own individual cup of noodles, including decorating the cup and choosing what went in it.  Here are some pictures from that:

This weekend, the majority of the Camp Adventure participants placed in Japan met up on Saturday at the big Buddha in Kamakura for a group picture and some games on the beach.  Although it was a dreary day, we still had fun!  Sunday my friend Haylie and I returned to Kamakura to spend some time on the beach again, this time when it was sunny!  I managed to get a pretty good sunburn, even though I used sunscreen, so these night couple days might be a little bit uncomfortable.  Here are some pictures from the beach!

On Saturday night, I went out with a group of girls to a restaurant called Pepper Lunch, where you ordered your food from a machine (like a vending machine), and received it uncooked on an extremely hot skillet and proceeded to cook it to your liking before eating it.  It was really good food, and was much cheaper than that quality of food would be back home.  I definitely plan to go back to this restaurant a few times before I head back to Iowa!  Here's some pictures of this whole process:

One of the goals I set for myself for the summer is to get into a regular exercise routine, and I have yet to attempt this, but I have determined that this is the week!  Part of my motivation for this is that I have signed up to climb Mount Fuji on July 26th.  However, I want to get in better shape in general.

It's hard to believe it's already the Fourth of July this week, but I am looking forward to see what types of celebrations will take place here on the base.  We do not have camp on Friday, but we will be working at some type of special event (we haven't received many details yet).

Two specific prayer requests this week are: following through with my exercise plans, and continuing to further my relationship with God.  Oh, and that my sunburn stops hurting quickly!  Thanks so much for taking the time to read my posts!