Weekend Update

So Saturday was a wonderful lazy day. In the morning I was able to skype everyone in my family except Josiah and Lele which was wonderrrbah... other than that I just did laundry, cleaned my room, did some grocery shopping blah de blah de blah. Also I went for a bike ride and explored Ichikawa some more- I found a very inexpensive store that sells come cute patootie clothes, so I'll hit that place up asap with some yen a jingling in my pockets. Also I made a bad move and started listening to Kpop again which nunfortunately awoke the sleep Korean Language dragon in my brain, so now I've had a tough time bringing up Japanese for the past couple days -_- Someone needs to suggest some good Japanese music to me so that I can sleep eat breath it until I miraculously become fluent. That's how it works right? Saturday evening Philipa and Yoko (my neighbor! she's on the Japanese staff) invited me to go on a bike ride with them along the river. There's a wonderful bike/jogging path that runs (I think) the entire length of the Itokawa, which is the river that divides Chiba from Tokyo. You can bike for miles and miles without ever changing direction, and you also get the wonderful breeze from off the water so it's just absolutely peachy. We rode for about 2 miles to an absolutely gorgeous park that had roses and wonderful trees and bridges and paths and just everything nice you could ask for. I think it will turn into a little paradise for me :) After coming home I cooked my first dinner on my own! yay me *pat pat* Sunday Philipa and I planned to go back to the park to have our lunch, but the weather forecast said it would rain so we scrapped those plans... annoyingly it didn't end up raining so we could've gone -_- c'est la vie. Instead we went Roppongi which is where most of the Embassies are, and also where the Tokyo Gospel Church meets. There are tons of foreigners there! Church was so much fun, with wonderful singing in a tiny little room. I think we would use the term "raising the roof".It was certainly a joyful noise. I also met a lot of people, looking forward to going back next week :) Anyways, that was my weekend! Not super exciting to read about I suppose, but it was very pleasant for me :) Enjoy these pictures!