コクサイドリ Kokusai Dori

we went there this past monday for our adventure mondays outing. it is in the caity of Naha and is known to be a more tourist attraction spot and is very mainland Japan-esque.

you could get some good deals if you really look. Dean, John Michael, and I had a luch consisting of carrots, percimens, and apple as we sat down and ate them there were about four different okinawan obaachans and ojiisans who passed by and commented on our carrots. (it was cheap though Dean spotted them they were five huge carrots, ninjen, for 100 yen the percimens, kaki, were a good deal too cause they are in season here). iwish i could show you the picture of us on my phone but i can't get it off my phone and i can't email it out T_T
it was a fun day.

okinawan village trip

We went to Expo park where they have the world's second largest aquarium this past Monday for our day off and a few of us who have been through the aquarium went off to enjoy the other parts of the park including the dolphin area and the Okinawan village. they have a welcome house with host ladies dressed up in traditional okinawan garb who served any guests that come to the house tea, okinawan brown sugar, and okinawan donuts and they had on display and for use the traditional okinawan stringed instrument called the sanshin. i had th opportunity to learn and play one of the traditional okinawan songs called tein sagu no hana which is about a small okinawan flower. twas pretty cool. i find myself humming the tune now and then. really was a blessing to relax that day and just soak in the fresh air and sun and a little bit of the rain. praise the Lord because He held back the rain because right about the time we left it started to pour. until the next update.