May

This month marks the 2 year anniversary I got to "walk" for my graduation from San Diego State.  Although I didn't actually graduate until December that year, it symbolized quite a few things. One: It was time for me to move into "the real world".  Two: It was time to graduate from living with 17 housemates in the AGO house and either move back home or find a new job really really fast and get myself an appartment in SD. I moved back home T_T. Though for a very short time.  Three: I finally had that "International Business" degree I worked so long to get.

Fastforward to now and I can see that lots of things have changed.  I live by myself in a tiny apartment with a tiny loft I sleep in above my kitchen. I go to work everyday to be surrounded by monkeys... uhm i mean kids who make me laugh and sigh at the same time.  I have the blessing of being able to finally develop skills with guitar as i am surrounded by musician friends i see every week and alos have the privilege of jamming with them in addition to playing in a church band really similar to Flood Church in SD.  I get to make loud noises with friends with and without instruments on weekends.

While I do feel like I haven't accomplished much in the career area of my life, I did get to Japan and somehow receive God's blessing to stay. Despite trying to be independent and live for myself (while horribly failing at it) Ive been blessed with a good (hopefully not for the rest of my life) job, great friends, a really interesting town to live in and something to look forward to every week.  After all, I did meet another SDSU graduate with the same major as me, yet in the same situation with the same "temporary" job as me.  A little encouragement to know that im not alone in the "career limbo" part of life.  Im not the only one feeling the need to move forward.

Somehow I am still living in this country and it hasn't ceased to amuse me, I only dreamed of being able to play in a band, a church band.. or just any band up until now.  And I don't know how, but I'm livin it.  Meeting new people every week in and out, mostly through church made me realize what a special place it its. In normal Japanese or American life you just dont meet these many new people so often. Ive never seen so many people come together  for or because of Christ.  But thats another story for another time.  Ill share some of the things I experienced this month.



In the beginning of May they have something called "Golden Week"  Its really just a bunch of holidays put in a row just so it feels like you have a week off.  城ヶ島 or Jougashima was the place we went to. Just south of Yokohama about an hour or two. 

Really beautiful scenery mostly. There were a few shots that would have been good except for the huge crane or just random construction machines in the way.

One of our friends decided he wanted a picture of himself taken with nunchucks and his shirt off.

The latter part of the day just turned into a ridiculous photo shoot.

Club Spare Room, a literal spare room at our friends' apartment had a sweet sound system and vinyl turn tables. A true club indeed.

















Here's some manga style pictures from the Yokohama Girl's Apartment. Who can you recognize?

 Another view I get to see when I go running near where I live.

And something interesting I found.  This bass is literally an AXE!

One part of having church potlucks is that we are lucky to have people who live on base bring real american pizza every once in a while.

 Cool fountain park area in my beautiful city.

Okay, way past my bed time. I get more and more terrible at posting and writing things so ill put up more pictures of this past month later!