Hey everyone! Sorry that there are no recent entries on my blog. I wrote a really long entry about my trip to Okinawa a week or so ago, but my dad deleted it and I don't have the patience to type it again. So if you wanted to hear about Okinawa and didn't get a chance, sorry. Feel free to send my father angry emails. :-) There are still pictures from Okinawa on my website though, he didn't get to those yet. Anyway, things have been good this past week. I've been working some, registering for classes, hanging out with my friends. On Saturday night, I went out with some friends. We were supposed to go to a club, but we ended up going out to eat and to a bar instead. My friend Jumpei has some friends in the US Navy who were stationed near Tokyo and decided to come out with us. They were...interesting. I was with four of my European friends and one of my Japanese friends in addition to the Navy guys. I don't think the Europeans knew quite what to make of them. One of the guys was really strange (I think he'd been left on the boat too long) and they were both kind of loud and offensive. One of them told me that America's military was so big and powerful that we could "simultaneously fight every country in the world and win." I'm still thanking God he's not in a position of power. They really clarified for me where people in foreign countries get their bad ideas about Americans from. But the night was alright, I could put up with them fine because I'm used to loud, obnoxious Americans...I worked at Walmart, how could I not be? One of them was really nice and they invited me to come down and see the American base in Yokosuka, which I think would be really interesting. I've never been on a military base before. Then Yesterday I went to Tokyo Disneyland, and it was super fun! I went with four people from my school and we had a really good time. Usually Tokyo Disneyland is super crowded, but we went on a Monday and it was a bit rainy, so the lines were really short. We got to go on every ride we wanted, do some shopping and see the electric lights parade. I had a really good time, it felt like the best time I've ever had at Disney, but I can't remember very well how much I loved it when I was 7. It wasn't hot or crowded, the rides were really fun, my friends and I all bought Mickey Mouse ears and walked around looking like big foreign dorks. We had a great time! Plus I was able to go through the Haunted Mansion for the first time. When I was 7, I got into the first part of the ride and got so scared and started crying so hard that the Disneyworld staff had to lead my mom and I out a back entrance, so I never got to go on the ride. But I guess I'm a little braver now, because I made it through. I'm glad I did too, cause it's a really great ride. I also got to see the Country Bears show, which was hilarious, cause it was this weird mixture of these hillbilly bears singing half in Japanese and half in English. They also have someplace called Disney Sea here, which I want to try and go to sometime. So that was my trip to Tokyo Disneyland, I'll try to post some pictures on my website soon. I'm off to my first practice with SAFRO family, the Japanese gospel choir I'm joining. Should be interesting...