Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A One Day Job, A Bike Ride, and Misc

Yoko got a job. Well, a least a one day job. She worked on an assembly line making salads for grocery stores. She got to stand in one place for 8 hours, listen to the supervisor yell instructions for 8 hours, and she has to go to another city to get paid. Not the best way to kick off working. On the bright side, she has two interviews coming up, one is as a website manager, and the other is doing graphic design. Either of these would be great, but we know the Lord has the right job for her.
Yesterday was the first day of fall, so we went to Yoko's grandpa's grave to clean it and leave flowers. This is common practice on this day. We did this primarily for Yoko's grandma since she is not able to get out and do this. After clean the grave site in the morning, we spent the rest of the day with Yoko's dad riding bikes. When we started out our goal was Tokyo Bay, and we made it. In the end, we ended up riding 106 kilometers (around 65 miles), and it was all done on a paved bike path. Here is a link to a map of where we are, and you can see where we road. http://www.worldmapfinder.com/Map_OpenStreetMap.php?ID=/En/Asia/Japan/Chiba You want your map to be at the scale of 5km/2 miles to start, then you can zoom in and follow the bike path (1000 meters/5000 feet) to the end at Tokyo Bay. The bike path is designated by blue dots. If you start just to the left of Narita International Airport, at the number 51, that is where we live. We road from there to Shisui (southwest) where we met Yoko's dad, from Shisui to Inba Lake (northwest) where we picked up the bike path. We really enjoyed the ride but are a bit sore today. It was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed the time with her dad.
Today we signed Erik up for school. He will begin October 6th and will be attending 5 days a week, 9 am to 12:20 pm. He is looking forward to formal instruction.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

こうなれば、日本語でカキコするぜ!
というワケで、
エリックくん、がんばってますね!
ようこさん、お仕事見つかるといいね。
お二人とも、祈っています。
おかあさんによろしくね。

あとね、このブログ、ほとんど英語でしょ?
(エリックくんが書いてるから)
それでね、このブログ、
ERAU の Study Abroad Japanのホームページ
(http://pr.erau.edu/~studyabroadjapan/)
にリンクを貼ってもいいですか?
ウチの学生に読ましてもいいですか?

Lauren McCrea said...

Hello Yoko and Eric. God bless and glad to receive your blog. Hope joyful work comes your way soon.

Will you cast your online ballot for YC student art!
Choose from the five finalist posters designed by YC graphic design students. The posters are nonpartisan and meant to encourage first time voters to get involved in the 08 presidential election.

The winner will be announced Sept 29, 2008. The winning poster will be printed and distributed in public places around the quad-city.
http://www2.yc.edu/content/vpa/art-department/vote081.htm