Miss Maddy in Japan

crashing my bike + breaking my fall with my arm = broken elbow Okay this week was an adventure.... we had a typhoon and ..... I broke my elbow! So many miracles happened. We found SO many people, and we were really honestly guided.  Broken Elbow story:  On the way home on Wednesday I tried to get up on the sidewalk and my tire got caught and I crashed. It was pretty bad. I naturally tried to catch myself, and it hurt. I couldn't move my arm. I picked myself up and then rode home...it was either ride and deal with the pain, or walk and have pain, so I rode. It was hard, but we made it to the apartment. Immediately, I grabbed ice and started to ice it. After a bit, it still hurt and it looked messed up from the swelling. I thought maybe it was dislocated. Finally, we called Shimai Mack and she said go to a hospital, so we called our District Leader and he called the Perkins (mission couple). Our District Leader thought it was a car accident so that was funny! He t...

pday hiking with my district and English students made for the perfect day! Evangelista Shimai, Ehlert Choro, Walters Choro, Nishimoto Choro, & Ebert Choro Suzuna, Tsukushi, & Taiki こんにちは I got transferred to the best place in the world! Futenma is fantastic and full of miracles. So here's what happened this week... Wednesday I had my last Eikaiwa in Oita and Setsuko Shimai came to say goodbye. I also said goodbye to Waka Chan and Yoko Shimai and that was so sad. I miss them so much. Then Thursday it was time for transfers and a crazy rainstorm! I came to Okinawa and the first night was Eikaiwa!  They do it Thursday's here so I got to teach beginning English with my new companion, Evangelista Shimai. She is from the Philippines and is way cool. We laugh a lot and have so much fun! We gave all the people in our class English names (Suzy, Emily, Tom, Steve, etc) and they loved it! Friday we found our way around a bit and found a new investigator, and ...