Was I in a painting?

Ever wonder if you could be in a painting, because of how beautiful your surroundings are?
Well, on Sunday morning I got to experience it on a whole different level.

Here in Japan the leaves are changing colors, they are brighter and more vibrant than Canada's leaves, not to mention in the mountains way more trees. We left around 7:30 in the morning and headed to a lake about an hour away. It was going to be a nice day, so Hiroyuki and I decided to take the motorcycle while everyone else drove in cars. If I was in a car, I am sure I would still think the leaves were beautiful, but when you are on a bike you see everything around and feel more in your surrounding. I didn't get pictures while on the bike, for good reasons, smart people would know about!! But if you ever have a chance to experience it I recommend you don't turn it own. When we arrived at the lake, you have to take a boat across then you hike up and you can see waterfalls on the way, if you remember back in July, I went to this lake and put pictures on my blog. Even though, I know showing you pictures won't do the beauty I saw justice, I am going to show you some I took and hopefully you understand a little about HOW I WAS IN A PICTURE LAST SUNDAY..

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Today, my Japanese teacher Took me to the Library and helped me choose some good books to read and pretty much made me sign up for an account all by myself!! It was hard but also a good experience. As we were at the Library, images of school flashed through my mind, it always seems like teachers are telling me to go to Libraries. Even though the past few years I have started Reading in my free time and enjoying it, I still could not push myself to go to a Library here and rent a Japanese book. But I did it and now I can go all the time, MAYBE. Not going to lie one of the books I got was a Japanese picture dictionary and the other was a high kids level book, but a good start I guess. It seems like I am a little kid learning to read again, it is kind of fun if I look at it that way.

Wow! Two posts in one day...

I just want to thank Janet and Jeff for sending me a very special package. I have been without Gummies for a long time. For most people this wouldn't be a huge problem but, they are one of the things I really miss from Canada (maybe not as much as family and friends,hehe). I was walking up to my apartment on friday ready to crash in bed after a long week and opened my mail box to find a package. Packages always seem to come on the right dates when God thinks I need them. But it made my night a whole lot better. Not to mention they were Cinnamon Gummies my favorite kind........

ANYWAYS THANKS A LOT!!!!!

I love Fall.....

How could you not like fall? The air is just cooling off, no more sweat or heat you can't stand, you can layer your clothes and be comfortable all day long! Not to mention all the beauty God shows us all around, like the leaves changing colors. I had the great experience yesterday morning of going up into the mountains and looking at the leaves(with other people who like taking pictures, thanks A and H for taking me) and going to a lake on friday with my ladies class(Thank you for taking me and treating me to lunch). They took me to the Hotel for lunch and it was a amazing lunch and I also got idea's for my future house at the hotel, hehe. Take a look at the photo's I got........





^This is the Hotel on the lake where we ate the amazing lunch^





^Then a walk down the lake to work off our lunch^









^And my amazing morning in the mountains^

My well needed weekend!

This past weekend all the missionaries/english teachers got together and had a spiritual weekend. John and Cathy Wile came and lead the spiritual part, they are so great at it and also great people to just sit around and talk with! I had a great time spending it with all the other English teachers and John and Kim's kids! We went to a sand bath, played park golf (which most of are team gave up half way through!), and just had some well needed time together! Also, at the place we went to for our campa japanese family lived there, they did all the cooking and stuff. But, it was good for me cause then I didn't have to miss speaking japanese as much cause I could talk to the kids for a bit!