It's Sea Day! 海の日だよ！

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It's summer, and wouldn't it be a waste if we didn't go to the beach? So I got some people together to go to Goza Shirahama. A typhoon had just passed, so the weather was perfect. I think we all got a little sunburned, except Tomomi, who stayed in the tent I brought the whole time.

We had a good time swimming, tossing the frisbee, lounging on floating wood "islands", playing with sea urchins, drawing stuff in the sand, um...I can't think of anymore. Unfortunately the typhoon stirred up so much sediment in the sea that we couldn't snorkel.

The beachgoers: Jen, Renelda, Tomomi, Kumiko, Paul, and me. So basically, this is the group of people I've met by going to the English Church in Nagoya.

Younger and Wiser

I've always been taught about life from people who are "older and wiser." It feels natural to put myself under the teaching of people who have lived longer than me. But I must be approaching the age that I have to learn how to learn from people who are younger than me, like pastors maybe. I guess everyone has to get used to that reversal sometime.