Ready or Not, Here's Week 2!

Hello everyone!  Week 2 of Camp started today! (I'm typing this on my lunch break), and I’m excited to see what God has in store for me, the other camp counselors, and also our kids!  Each week we do lots of special things (weather permitting), on Tuesday mornings we take the kids in our room swimming, Wednesday mornings we go bowling, Thursday afternoons we walk to a park to play, and Fridays we go on field trips!  Last week I went in to work at 8AM, this week I go in at 7AM so that will be a bit of a change.  The three camp counselors in my room are on a weekly rotation of shifts.  Next week I will go in at 7:30.

This weekend my friend Haylie and I headed to Tokyo!  We booked a hotel room a few nights in advance, and hopped on the train Saturday morning.  We didn’t really plan things out, and decided that from now on we will determine a better itinerary for our trips.  Although we had fun, we didn’t see the part of Tokyo that we were expecting.  Tokyo is split into several different regions, and we explored parts of 3, but they were on the outskirts and were not nearly as busy as we were expecting.  Our hotel room was bunk bed style, with a total of 129 square feet.  There was hardly enough room for both of us to change clothes at the same time!  MUCH different than hotels back home!  Here are a few pictures of our accommodations:

 

Saturday we visited Ueno Park, Ueno Zoo, a street market of sorts where lots of fresh seafood was being sold, and did lots of walking to see various parts of the city.  Sunday we did some more browsing, and found a very fancy (and expensive) shopping district.  We didn’t stay long in most stores after seeing a few price tags.  I’ll also include some pictures of the city as well.

 

The first week of camp went well overall!  Each Friday the counselors choose one camper from their room to cream a counselor.  That camper in turn gets to choose with counselor (of all of us) they want to cream.  I was the lucky one chosen by one of my campers!  Here is a picture from that.

This week is looking like another really busy week, with lots of meetings.  Each counselor at my site will work with one other person to plan activities for two separate weeks of camp.  My first week of programming is due next Monday, so preparing that will take up a large portion of my ‘free time’ this week.  I am really hoping that this summer with help to strengthen my faith, and I ask for your prayers through the good days and the bad.  I want to shine God’s light not only to the kids I am working with, but also to the other young adults I am working in close contact with this summer.  Thanks so much for taking the time to read my posts, I hope you are enjoying following me through my journey here in Japan!