Reflections/ Coming Home

I enjoyed a pretty relaxing day of travel yesterday .Thursday here---  from Tome base camp to Tokyo.

A group of us that have spent the last month living and working together made the trip together. Taxi,bullet train,train,bus. I am going to spend a little more time sight seeing  with Shino today before my 5:00 PM flight.

It has been a great experience to see God working here! I was blessed to be able to spend time with some of the Japanese families in their homes wile we worked .You know how I love to meet new friends and spend time visiting. 

I was able to do that here. I am looking forward to seeing all of you. I miss you guys! A month is a long time to be away.

It is 8:30 AM.  No work today. Strong winds have torn the tarp roof off the shower tent last night and they slashed the tarps on the sides open to keep the thing from ripping to shreds and blowing away. The driving rain has turned to blowing snow. Check the weather in Sendi. We are safe and dry inside this building. A lot of rumors about the bullet train not running today, cancelled flights at Tokyo, Narita, and Sendi airports because of wind. I can not confirm that. I know the wall I am leaning against is shaking a lot from the strong gusts.Last night I went into the forest to experience the trees blowing and thrashing from below. What a fantastic show! A small tree was blown down and fell near me! Crazy! I made a video of it.

I trust this will all blow through by our scheduled 12:00 taxi ride to the train station tomorrow to begin our long journey home. What a great experience! God is doing good work here, and a lot of people are seeing first hand how God works. It's fun to be part of that!

Seabees

The seabees finally showed up last night. I worked with a construction girl seabee. I am very impressed. High quality work and a good atitude. A very pleasant girl to work with. I hope I get a chance to work with some of the others.There are 7 or 8 of them volunteering their free time to help. They are stationed near Tokyo.

A Day Off to Explore

Cold, Wet Snow

                                                                   

 Tome Education Museum

New Friends

  A lot of volunteers have left here, plus it's Sunday, so it's much quieter here.  I  walked yesterday morning about 4 hours. That was nice.These photos are from my walk.

I had a good day. We finished the first house. Just clean up left. We have been taking break and lunch with a couple of Japanese construction workers. They keep showing up at break time with coffee and tea for us. I'm having a great time with these guys, even without our translator.  I will try to send pics of the home owners and their doctor son. Also our construction buddies.

A few photos from Japan

A Day Off

Hi all.

I am starting to settle into a routine. We are getting much work done, meeting many people. An amazingly diverse group of people, from different corners of the world. We all share a common goal. To extend Gods love and mercy to our brothers and sisters in Japan. It's Saturday 5:00 AM and I have the day off. Some folks have offered to take some of us newcomers on a tour, and maybe a museum. A tour of what, and what kind of museum? I have no idea. Every day is an adventure here. The doorways in the houses here are 5' 9" instead of our 6' 8"! A wee bit low for the Irish! And everyone else. There is much head banging involved in doing Gods work here. I miss you all. I will go now as many people are waiting to use the Internet.

                                                                                                                            Mark O'