Eek, I dropped the ball the last couple days. It's hard to find time to write when I just want to go to sleep!! But now, hopefully, I all better.

Okay, so the day before yesterday, we went to see Grace, who is living with her aunt in Shinanomachi. First we went to an international SGI meeting held in English and there were about 5 people there from Seattle. It was really funny. One I hadn't met, but I met him now. He asked a really good question, so I think he's a good guy. I was really weird to be at a meeting in Japan and have to have an interpreter for the visiting Japanese guy. Weird. But it was a good meeting I think. Naoki was there, which was kind of weird, but I didn't know if I made it weird because of what she did and is doing, or if she was really trying to do it to me.

Anyway, then we went to Grace's house. That is the smallest house I have ever seen! And it holds two people and a cat. I'm not quite sure how. But it was good to see her again and talk to her. She had a really hard time when she first got here because no one around her speaks English. And now her husband has found some tumors that could turn cancerous eventually. She is not having an easy time of it!

Yesterday we went to district meetings and they held a welcome party for us. At least at the district meeting I went to, I know Maju's parents, but Conny didn't know anyone. Then I had lunch with Maju's parents, and they showed me a picture album from their trip to England 10 years ago. Maju was soooo cute and young looking! That was fun, they are very nice people and are missing her very much.

And then the party was a bunch of people we didn't know, very few of them who spoke any kind of English. Not that they would let us speak Japanese mind you. But it was interesting. I gave a rubber-duck Ichiro thing that I got at the airport to a junior high student who loves baseball. I think he liked it a lot, which I don't quite understand, but who cares.

Today we might go to a art exhibition and then a Chinese restaurant managed by the mizuno's daughter-in-law's friend. Got that. Should be fun...