Dana Comes to Visit!

Welcome Dana from Naha! And Toki and Roy!

Those were the brave souls (plus Dave) who swam the "3km Miyako Rough-Water Swim"!

Sunday went to the beach! Nice day.

Evaluation of Miyako Schools

So after today I have been to all the schools that I was assigned to on Miyako.

Here’s some goods/bads about each school!

Kagamihara
10 classes/week. Funny JTE, I often find myself laughing to myself at what he does during class. Lunch is always cold, apparently because it’s the last school that get their food delivered everyday.

Ueno
Good bunch of students. JTE is like a mother-figure to the students. Never fails to have yummy snacks!
So so far far away.

Kita
Close to home.
Too many students.

Hisamatsu
Really good ICE! So smooth like candy, and melts really slowly! Gotta find out what kind of ice that is.
I don’t get internet.

Nishibe
I get internet.

Last Week in Spetember

Why haven't I been able to broil eggs without cracking it yet?

Silver Week

SILVER WEEK

Saturday September 19

Today I flew to Naha. Due to cloudy weather, we went glass-blowing. Me, Dana, Laura, her bf Toru, and Lisa. I made an orange glass cup! sweet.

We then chilled at a near-by beach.

On the way home we stopped by A&W because me and Dana were craving some ROOTBEER FLOATS! They put ice chunks in the rootbeerfloat and all the ice got in the way of the ice cream goodness.

We met up with Ethan and his friend at an Irish Pub. As the four of us were talking, the waitress bought over two shots and told us that a guy at the bar bought it for us. The guy only gave us two shots, so naturally we assumed it was for Dana and I… But the waitress said no, the guy at the bar insisted that Ethan and his friend drink it… Awkward moment.

Sunday September 20

Exciting and eventful day with Jaime, Dana, and Logan! Jaime drove us up north and took us to a cute little hiking trail… after we got lost for a bit, took the wrong path, flew through the air because Jaime was driving so fast, and not being able to find parking for a while.

For lunch we ate at a super good burger place! I got the Mexican taco burger. Basically it was a regular juicy burger with taco meat on top with guacamole, and the usuals.

Then we headed to a beach where Dana did some swimming.

Then we headed to the aquarium! Basically it was awesome.

You know what else is awesome… the black garlic ramen I had for dinner was awesome! There was this jar of garlic on the table, and you could add as much garlic as you wanted in your ramen! I added three nuts of garlic. MmmMmmmm .

Monday September 21

Trip to Kadena AFB with Logan and Dana! There was a long line at the check-in place, but it was alllll worth it once we actually got on base. Subway, doritoes, BX, Commissary. We were only there for about three hours, and that’s only because they closed at 7 and we got there are 4. At the commissary we were only finished with half of the store when they were announcing that they were closing. We managed to fit everything into Logan’s car. J

Tuesday September 22

The original plan was to meet up with Ethan and his friend and take the ferry over to another island and have a beach day. We get there at 1015 and the last ferry was at 9. So we decided to go to AMERICAN VILLAGE instead. Caught a taxi. 2840yen.

American Village had stores that said “America” all over them, but basically the products were all FOB. There was even a Sunset Beach! Nothing like Sunset in Hawaii though.

Ate lunch at an Okonomiyake place. Requested to sit outside since it was a nice day, but turned out to take 5 times longer to get service than the people inside. Out of sight out of mind.

Caught the taxi home, and headed to the airport to go back to Miyako.

Arrived Miyako at about 7pm, went home to eat dinner, then headed out to Hilson’s for poker. Rick won his first game ever.