Completed Sixth Week of Bible School
Well, our sixth week has come and gone. This week we departed from our Bible studies and did “Creative Life Planning”. The intent is to help you determine a direction, especially with regards to a career for you your life. I was surprised to find that I got as much or more out of it than the students ten years younger than me. In the end we make a vision for our life (or an aspect of our life, but I went for the gusto) and from there we determine goals in order to fulfill the vision.
At the end of the week we attended another church and gave our final preformance of “Jesus Loves Me”. Every week the students perform it in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. Christine and I also taught a college age Sunday school class.
Monday we went to an elementary school. We spent one class teaching them about our different countries. We were representing Canada, USA, Ecuador, Germany, and UK. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to teach them the “Logdriver’s Waltz”…
The second class, they taught us how to play a traditional Japanese instrument. That was a lot of fun, although I don’t think I could have handled a whole day. There was one small snag, however. Because we stayed overnight Sunday, I packed extra shirts for Monday, but didn’t bother to take extra pants. On Sunday I realised that there was a hole in the crotch of my pants. Actually, Christine noticed, and very discreetly informed me (by screaming, then grabbing my knees and pushing them together). Sunday was mostly standing, so it wasn’t a problem, but on Monday when we had the music lesson we had to sit on the floor, on our knees. Well, halfway through my first lesson, two of the Japanese boys sitting across from me must have noticed the hole and almost fell on the floor laughing. I then became aware of an increased amount of whispering and giggling between the children around me, but when it comes to playing traditional Japanese instruments, the show must go on, so I just kept playing.
