The Guy's Club (the club that will be practicing English with us) threw us a welcome party last night and we played "Wasabi Roulette". They put wasabi into a cream puff and then passed out cream puffs to everyone. One lucky winner stuffs it in their mouth and realizes to their horror that there is wasabi inside. I have the worst luck in the world, so the Japanese students got to laugh at me spitting wasabi out of my mouth and running out of the room. They quickly found out how loud I am and I was so delighted to know that they don't mind.
It's really cool to see how excited the students are to spend time with us. Every Thursday we will meet with the Guy's Club to practice English. Afterward there will be a Bible discussion at the guys' apartment. Last night we had our first one and we discussed our dreams for the future. They got to practice English as we asked them some deeper questions about what they want to do with their lives. All of the Japanese students that I talked to said that they want to travel the world and meet people. We looked at Jeremiah 29:11, which talks about the Lord having plans for us. Some of the students seemed happy to hear that God has plans for us and others expressed that they'd rather make their own plans for themselves. Afterward I was praying for them and thinking about the fact that there is a good chance that no one has ever prayed for these students before. They will probably never have the chance to interact with another Christian. The relationships that we are building here are really important and I'm trusting God to use us to impact these students. I'm excited to see what He has in store for us.
P.S. For those of you reading this from Cornerstone, I want you to know that Kevin is picking up Japanese annoyingly fast.
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