Wow, already a few weeks have gone by since I last updated my blog. :P Sincerest apologies; got so caught up in other things. Not that I have been completely lazy or anything like that! Very much on the contrary, I've been pretty busy!
First of all, I'm in Japan now and am sooo glad to be with my family, dogs, friends, and church family. ^_^ I've missed everything about Japan so much; especially the food. lol! Truly! I've eaten so much food that I would imagine I would be quite... umm... 'large' by the time I get back to Hawaii except for the fact that I've been 'moving around' a lot in the form of taking up dance classes and helping out with the renovation at the church. Been taking tap and musical dance at Imai Jazz&Ballet Studio again; it's great seeing my teacher, her daughter and son (who are also teachers), and my fellow 'dance-mates' after a whole semester away. Fortunately, I don't seem to have forgotten how to dance so I'm able to keep up with the classes. :P
Before I get into the renovation work I've been doing, first off I have pictures from the Koinonia meeting from last Sunday evening. 'Koinonia' is the group of young people from our church (20's and 30's) who get together once a month to fellowship.
That evening we had the meeting at Erin's house so we also had Chocolat for company. ^_^ My father talked a bit about the idea of the Koinonia group starting up an evangalistic ministry to reach out for young families and university students who live in the area of our church. Then Erin talked about how as the Koinonia group we really have to come together as 'one' and to be unified in what we do together.Of course, as you can imagine, the potluck dinner afterwards was DELICIOUS! Everyone made something and everything was too yummy for words. I liked the eda-mame and ate almost the whole bowl (and it was a fairly large sized bowl...) :P
After eating we talked about what Pastor had said and came up with some good ideas. Erin, Maki, and I won't be here but it was great helping out with the ideas and supporting this wonderful group. Many blessings on each and every member of Koinonia! And as you may have noticed, Ai-chan is veeeeerrry pregnant so many hurrahs for Ai-chan and Bob's baby!!!On to updates on the renovation project. From two weeks ago, I've been going to church on the weekdays and with the help of my loyal sidekick Maria (:P), we've been picking up where the last renovation team left off. First thing we did was clean up behind the garage (lots of wood and 'junk' that needed to be reorganized), the sound room (just HAD to be cleaned up as there was hardly much room to walk back to the baptistry), and the OTG a.k.a. Over The Garage room (ALL the tools had to be reorganized and 'found'). Got all that done and it feels so nice to have everything so clean!
Then we starting on laying another layer of thin plywood in the fellowship hall and the kitchen; had to be pinned down with special pins since we were gluing it down. That was a LOT of work and took a better part of three (maybe four, can't quite remember) days to complete. THEN we also of course had to take all the pins out! There was about (and I'm NOT joking...) 1800 PINS to take out!!! Yup, that was hard work and have blisters to prove it. ^_^ But it looked so nice and clean afterwards.
But not as nice and clean as it looks now! Maria and I painted the kitchen then from yesterday, with Maria's and my mother's help, we laid down tiles in the fellowship hall. Also got the tiles laid down and finished in the kitchen today, too! So tomorrow, all we have to do is put up the baseboards and return all the tables, chairs, refrigerator, cabinets, etc. back to where their supposed to be. Then the fellowship hall and kitchen will be pretty much complete! Am very excited about it as I know it's going to look soooo nice when it's all done!
That's it for now; sorry I could only put two pictures up. For some reason, it's not letting me put more pictures and I certainly have lots more great pictures from Koinonia and the renovation work!! Ahh... well... will update again and soon as I can to put up pictures. G'night!
