I can't believe November is already almost over...and this is my first post... Well once again I have been busy. So here's an update on what I've been doing. At the end of October, I had Halloween parties for my English classes. November 3, the
LECC (Lutheran Evangelical Christian Church) celebrated 50 years of being in Japan. I was quite busy cleaning and
helping get everything ready for the event because there was a special service at my church in
Tsuchiura. I also had many guest staying with me for the event. The
Valleskys and Gurgles stayed with me the Friday night before, and then the
Valleskys spent about the next week at my house. Rachel
Foelske and her friend
Chieko spent that
Saturday night at my house. It was nice to have so many people around. November 9 was my birthday. I had lots of fun celebrating my birthday with the
Stahmanns and the
Kondos, and even got my birthday apple pie and flowers. Tuesday, November 13, I went on another field trip with the girls to the
Ibaraki Nature Mu
seum. It was so much nicer for me this time because the
Kondos also went. So I had lots of help watching the girls. Here's a link to see pictures from the field trip:
http://ghdunn.smugmug.com/gallery/3888676#225427550ugmug.com/gallery/3888676#225427550. The girls had so much fun! The next weekend I went into Tokyo and spent Sunday night at the
Wordells' house. Monday, Rachel and I went Christmas shopping. It was great, I got almost all my gifts bought. I had to rush back to
Tsuchiura that evening though to meet Michelle (
Piske) and Derek Most who came to visit me for Thanksgiving. They stayed until Thanksgiving day and we had our Thanksgiving meal Wednesday night. I had the Missionary Thanksgiving meal the
Saturday after Thanksgiving at the
Wordells' house. It was good to get together with the
Stahmanns,
Wordells and
Habbens. The food was excellent. We even had turkey! (Japanese people don't eat turkey...I don't know why.) I spent the rest of my Thanksgiving break setting up my classroom for Christmas and putting together the Christmas service. I have a feeling December is going to fly by. I have put up some other photos from things I talked about earlier in my blog, so feel free to look through the different albums:
http://ghdunn.smugmug.com/Family/351064.
helping get everything ready for the event because there was a special service at my church in Tsuchiura. I also had many guest staying with me for the event. The Valleskys and Gurgles stayed with me the Friday night before, and then the Valleskys spent about the next week at my house. Rachel Foelske and her friend Chieko spent that Saturday night at my house. It was nice to have so many people around. November 9 was my birthday. I had lots of fun celebrating my birthday with the Stahmanns and the Kondos, and even got my birthday apple pie and flowers. Tuesday, November 13, I went on another field trip with the girls to the Ibaraki Nature Mu
seum. It was so much nicer for me this time because the Kondos also went. So I had lots of help watching the girls. Here's a link to see pictures from the field trip: http://ghdunn.smugmug.com/gallery/3888676#225427550ugmug.com/gallery/3888676#225427550. The girls had so much fun! The next weekend I went into Tokyo and spent Sunday night at the Wordells' house. Monday, Rachel and I went Christmas shopping. It was great, I got almost all my gifts bought. I had to rush back to Tsuchiura that evening though to meet Michelle (Piske) and Derek Most who came to visit me for Thanksgiving. They stayed until Thanksgiving day and we had our Thanksgiving meal Wednesday night. I had the Missionary Thanksgiving meal the Saturday after Thanksgiving at the Wordells' house. It was good to get together with the Stahmanns, Wordells and Habbens. The food was excellent. We even had turkey! (Japanese people don't eat turkey...I don't know why.) I spent the rest of my Thanksgiving break setting up my classroom for Christmas and putting together the Christmas service. I have a feeling December is going to fly by. I have put up some other photos from things I talked about earlier in my blog, so feel free to look through the different albums: http://ghdunn.smugmug.com/Family/351064.
