This is the cutest little girl. she is only 5 years old but she can already snowboard, so cool. Her mom and dad both snowboard so they taught her and they dress her like a cool snowboard girl too, its funny.

Random

These are just some photos we took with the SFC team, it was really great to have them here, and they all enjoying being here as well. God was really working through the SFC team and NORTHSTAR staff while we were all kinda connected for this week. we have seens lots of cool things taking place, we have had a few people saved and a bunch of people just getting closer to God and getting better understanding of him.





Traveling in style

snowboard comp

Here is a bunch of pics from the snowboard comp. It was really really good, we had about 120 people show up, maybe 40 people in the comp and then the rest just watching. Everyone that was there was really into it, and there was lots of cheering and laughter.

SFC

This week we have a team from SFC(snowboarders for Christ) here. Its been cool having them as I know most of them from just traveling around and running into them here and there so I already knew over half of the team before they were here. So good to have a few more friends always. Right now there on a SFC Japan tour going around to SFC groups and just helping them out where they can. The main reason they came to northstar is because we have a SFC camp with weekend and also on Saturday, tomorrow we are going a big snowboard comp so there here to help with that. We are hoping to have around 40 people come to compete in the comp and then others just watching. Bruce the leader of SFC Canada is going to give a testimony just after the finals and then we are going to have time to just chill out and give out prizes, so please pray for this time and also for the SFC team and for Northstar staff as well. Thanks you.

The day

well so heres to put you in the photo looking mood. So after a day in the city attending a church where you dont understand anything said because its all in japanese and then after that you head off to a sushi bar for lunch. When this is finished you head to a electronic shop and lay down in a message chair, you have been looking forward to this all day as your heading is pounding from the migrain that has been running your day for the last 6 hours. as you lie down you shut your eyes and drift off to sleep, around 45 minutes later you are waken up but a sudden movement in the message chair and then are slightly confused of whats going on and where you are. you slowly snap back to whats going on and then start to stand and then carry on your day and walk down the street to grab a start bucks and begin the hour drive home.
So this is where these photos came from just a random day doing normal things.

Crazy card game WARNING VIOLENT CONTENT

Ok well i had to post this for all the students at yokohama international school as they invented the game and i would have to say its one of the most crazy dangerous painful card games i have ever been played. pretty much what you do it everyone starts with cards and you go around the circle and everyone gets a turn putting down a card and if duble ever show up you then try to grab the pile. sounds pretty easy and safe? well heres the catch, if any part of your body crosses over top of the table you are then open for anyone to hit you, also if you ever have your cards over the table they can be taken by anyone. So if you watch the video now the madness will make a little more sence to you all. So thanks to this great group of kids that are all super crazy and really enjoying making up there own games.

This is shibuya crossing

going down hill

Well so it seems that things are going down hill at hatsuhana(my house here in japan) well so lattly have have gained another problume, we no longer have water. well acaully we sometimes have water but only for one minute at a time every hour or so. we will hear a load noise in the pipes and that mean that we will now have water for one minute so we rush to the bathroom and brush our teeth as fast as we can and then head off to bed.
So lets refresh the living condition im in
-first of very very cold, some times only 1c
-we must climb a large hill each time we want to go to our house, the hill is covered with ice
-we have not hot water
-we have NO water
-there is a ghost that lives there
-there are mice in the walls and they make lots of noise

well thats a quick sum up of how it is to live in Japan in a house where you dont pay rent.