EMOTION: I feel so sick and terrible =0(
My symptoms are queasy/nausea, major headache, fatigue, bloated
I had to stay home and miss training the whole day today. The only thing i can do is drink a lot of fluid and pray that I get better by tomorrow. I think I either have a cold, dehydrated or majorly jet lagged?? Im not sure what it is, i just know I feel like BLAHH
I miss home!!!! but I'm really glad I'm here ^^ no homesick....yet lol
TRAINING: These last few days have been intense training. When I say intense, i mean 9 hours of training and constructive criticisms on activities. Yesterday, we were asked the question "why are you in Japan?". This will be a common question Japanese students would ask. THe goal is to answer truthfully yet grab their attention. It sounds easy, but its surprising how the JCCC staff would give us feedback on how our answers will be interpreted by them. Our common response was "to learn about japanese culture and gain friends"....but that will be seen as a lie or something. We were told to be specific and truthful, like "My heart led me to Japan". It is honest and will make them curious what you mean.
Today, which i missed =0(, we shared our 3 minute testimonies and were given much feedback. Ways of clearly stating our testimony in a solid, thorough, clear manner.
Tomorrow will be our last day of training.
This coming Monday will be our first day at Japan University. The JCCC staff have never shared the Gospel there, so this is new territory! All Japanese have learned 6 years of written English. So they are really good at reading English but have a hard time speaking english. One way of communication/evangelism is to draw pictures or write down words. I'm excited to step unto campus ^^
Our goal is to be friend them...so through out the week, we will be hanging out and getting to know them. I pray for those students we are about to meet.
LIFE in JAPAN:
- Imagine the Vienna Metro Station but quiet. Seriously, the Japanese are such a quiet, peaceful people. It is literally quiet everywhere.
- In VA, there is chaos to get into the public bus or going up an elevator during rush hour. In Japan, these people form LINES! There was a huge flood of people going up the stairs, but they formed a line and people even went to the back of the line to go up the stairs. If this was VA, people would be cutting and pushing to go up the stairs.
- Noone ever "bumps" into you. Japanese are so aware of respecting other people, they really watch their steps.
- At the cross-walk, they actually wait for the green light to walk even when there are no cars! Im like "we could go now......." but i wait for the green light lol
- Its so clean! They don't drop their trash on the floor. I saw this one guy put out his cigarette and took the bud with him.
- In America, we throw our trash into one bin. In Japan, you have to separate all the trash
I've probably passed by hundreds of Japanese these last few days and probably only 50 or 80 (including my team and JCCC staff) know Christ. It pains me to sit in the subway train and know hundreds of them are crying out for purpose and freedom.
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