Did I just get death-wished by a 7-year-old?

Warning: rant ahead.

And it's now Saturday, and I'm finally getting to the Monday blog. Sorry it's been so delayed. You have to understand, MISSION TRIPS ARE BUSY THINGS.  It's just so hard to smoosh them in every day :( But now I have some freetime, so I might as well keep a' goin'.

Rant over.

On Monday, we went over to KCC for "Grace Coffee Hour," which is a nice little time for chruch members to come together to talk, worship, and and eat delicious treats prepared by the wonderful KCC kitchen ladies. The team and I preformed a few of our worship sets. Then we found out we needed to practice more. Luckily, BEK worship went MUCH better. Several children said it was their favorite part of the day. Awww~ Plenty of warm and fuzzies for the worship leader, a certain Ms. Me!

While at Grace Coffee Hour, I ran into a few familiar faces: Souma-san, aka, the Ginza Guy ("And now, we go to GINZAAAAAAA!") the sweet lady who gave me, Laura, and Emily handmade bookmarks last year, Sanai (a good friend of Mary Beth Kirshman, for whom I play delivery girl to) and of course, Pastor Taizo and his wife Kimiko. I'd also like to add that I got two hugs (one from Pastor Taizo, one from the bookmark lady) within the first 72 hours after arriving in Tokyo. Japan really isn't a touchy-feely place. Hugs just really arn't that appreciated. So to get two is kind of a big deal, to me anyways. ^^

While we were at Coffee Hour, the team and I met a 7-year-old girl named Hinata. There was no common language between us, except for an English "Thank you" from Hinata and whatever scattered Japanese words ("Neko... hime....oishi....tsuki desu ka?"*) we could come up with. But we still had fun getting to know each other. We had Japanese/English lessons back and forth, learning colors, numbers, and currency exchanges! We learned each other's favorite colors, and how much yen equals a quarter.

As we chatted, Hinata drew the most adorable pictures of me and the team. She paid TONS of attention to detail, giving me glasses (and a bow in my hair, which I wasn't actually wearing. But oh well, points for creativity!), Bri sunglasses (she was wearing them at the time) taking extra care to write "Hoosiers" across Joe's IU hat, and percisely recording the patterns of Jason's facial hair.

But she drew us all as ghosts.

Granted, very very  cute ghosts! But still ghosts all the same. We accepted our portraits happily and even asked the artist for an autograph.

.......But why ghosts? Oh well. :)

Tomorrow's post will focus on Wednesday, since Tuesday was all about preparing for BEK. Nothing really important there.
*cat, princess, delicious, do you like that/this?