Busy Sunday, ~Ah Sore Sore!~

Erin went to Kaimuki Church early to practice music and though she was supposed to wake Maki and me up before she left, she forgot to. :P Fortunately, I woke up just a little after she left so Maki and I were able to get ready for church in time for Erin to pick us up. For today's 8:30 service, there was a special guest from Kenya named Fred Outa. He talked about his mission work in Kenya and he had so much to say that we finished around 10:10! The people who were coming for the 10:30 service were waiting outside in the lanai which was pretty funny. :P

Went home and we had our own church service with Erin on the keyboard and Maki on the guitar for our worship. Erin preached about "Those Who Sow Seeds" and it was a very good message about how we can sew seeds, but we have to make sure we actually bear forth fruit.

Relaxed for a bit and then we made sandwiches for lunch, eating while watching an episode of Hogan's Heroes. We left the house around 12:30 to make it to McKinley public school where there was a Japanese "The 2005 Musical Variety Show", hosted by All Hawaii Minyo MInbu Association and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i'. Aunt Jean's long time friend, Eiko Crowley, takes Japanese dance lessons so she was dancing in the show. Eiko-san is really, really good so it was nice to see her (she did the man's role in the dance as you can see in the picture). However, there was the group of old women who were pretty bad... :P I was trying so hard not to laugh or anything... *snicker* But there was this one woman in this dance with two others who was sooooo good! Later on I learned that she was actually a teacher (so of course she was good) but also that she was 84 years old! Wow... And later on there was this woman dancing a bon-odori dance who was 95 years old! Wow again...

The coolest thing about the show was that there was a 30 minute segment danced by the Masafuji Ryu Young Dancing Group of twelve mid-twenties young men and women who came from Japan to dance. They were actually from Yokohama and had danced at Pacifico! Anyway, they were spectacular and were definitely the highlight of the whole thing. They did many different dances, including one where the guys did like a 'sword dance'. Very cool... My favorite was probably their 'Hokkaido' dance which depicts like the fishing they did. Another funny one was a song about 'sake' (rice wine). :P It was pretty funny, especially with this one guy wearing the 'hyyo-toko' mask. At the end of their 'act', the threw rolled up 'tenugui' to the audience. Erin, Maki, Aunt Jean, and I all got one though Erin gave hers to the woman sitting next to her. :P So nice...

The song right before the intermission was 'Honolulu Ondo', a bon odori Honolulu-version song. lol! It was pretty funny, things like 'The moon shines over Diamond Head' or 'Hawaii is a nice place, such a paradise. :P Erin, Maki and I actually left at the intermission because it was already around 2:45 or so and there was quite a bit more to the show.

On the way going home, we tried stopping by Boba Locas for drinks but it was closed. :P So we went to a Coffee or Tea? (that's really the name of the place :P). I got a iced cafe mocha. Yummm! Got home and finished up my Siddhartha report... hurray! Oh, and I took a picture of Erin and Maki wearing the 'tenugui' we got today. They look good, don't they? No picture of me because I didn't feel like getting a picture of myself... :P

After dinner of hamburger, Maki and I watched Father Goose which I hadn't seen in such a loooong time. Cary Grant is such a funny, gruff but really-not-so-tough character and Leslie Caron is delightfully annoying. lol! They made a cute couple, and the kids are actually not annoyin like most 'kid characters' in movies nowadays.

Off to bed now; I'm going to school early tomorrow to see my liberal arts counsellor. Bye-bye!