yes! I love you hyaku yen store!

Seriously, the 100 yen store is the freakin best. I bought so much cool crap there, i mean they dont sell coolish, or mocchi, or any tshirts with funny slogans, but they have a lot of cool stuff. like a yard of jean fabric for 100 yen (which is like equal to 80-88 cents), good snacks, pens, pencils, toys, chopsticks, film and batteries and some cool stuff. but the best is definately this:

yup those are Rocket Firework.

yeah thats my post for the day, im going to bring my camera to class tommorow, so more pictures tommorow.

yeyuh.

yeah so today was the second day of classes.  I had the first day of japanese class, and then we had missions and then we had church history.  it was alrite, but i fell asleep in church history, kind of lame.  But i did get to see dave shirley when he had hair, it was a cool time but again im not able to pay attention that long, so i eventually went home and got some coolish, and some veggie fries and some crazy candy candies that were pretty good.  sweet.  I want to do something, i dont know what though, i think i want to go on a long bike ride and just i dunno, feel the breeze or something.  word.

crasses.

hey whats up guys, today is the first day of classes, i started with the class of acts and then now i just finished mens discipleship, but then at 6:30 im going to take revelation class.  now i want to go out and buy some speakers so we can watch movies at a better volume then that of laptop speakers. There are a bunch of people on my mind right now and i hope you are doing alrite, for example, EJ i hope school is going well, JOHN hope school is going well. Cassy I hope youll make a decision you are happy with.  yeah please make one and be happy with it haha.  So yeah im right now currently desiging my actual website, you can constantly check out the progress by going to http://www.jzierau.com.  I will eventually put this blog on that website, so it is all connected to the good stuff, but not yet.  So yeah everything is going good, im going to try to update this blog everyday.  It will be a cool record of what went down in japan.

So i heard im going to be able to teach someone english.  thats pretty cool, i would like to be able to do that, plus its 5000 yen a month AND I get to learn japanese in the process.  Hooray biiru
yesturday. me and doug and brad watched stay alive last night,  yes the movie where the kids get the game and when they die in the game they die in real life.  Let me tell you, such an idiotic movie.  I hated it. end of story.

orientation.

today was the first day officially of the college. so we started off with orientation. We sat around and discussed the do’s and don’ts of okinawa as well as the japanese people, with none other then the best teacher in the world Yoshi. we talked about how not to pass food between two chopsticks, because its a celebration of the dead, and how now to touch japanese people or give them handshakes, because its weird and invasion of privacy. we then talked about the classes, im taking a total of 24 credits, to make up for the first class I failed in the first semester, im tgaking as electives: revelation, church history, and old testament theology. Which is good because the first 2 are required fourth semester classes, so im able to get those out of the way already. which hopefully will leave me time to do the yearbook for m199 next semester. Then we talked about the history of okinawa, and then topped it all off with a trip to what is said to be a portal between this world and the undead world, this is where okinawans believe their dead ancestors come through to look over them, so any times people will come here and pray for their ancestors and their dead relatives in hopes that they will bless them. Then we heard just other crazy stories about japan and then I got some Mocchi and Melon Soda. I had 190 when I came out here, and now I have 140. Its pretty cool because Japan usually has most stuff priced around 100 yen, so instead of paying a full dollar for everything we would pay around 85 cents (to an american dollar) for what we are buying, which is mad cool. I exchanged 150 american dollars to yen, and i got 17,000 yen, which is really good when you equal it to 100 yen segments. So im set for a while out here. Although ive been mad lame for the past couple of days, i really love this place. I will have pictures up soon, and as well as the ccbc okinawa website up too(yeah i guess thats my m199 for the semester) so ill let you know when i have that. Goodnight.

love you family, and friends

- JEremy

man.

today was crazy, we went to some marina that starts with a K and we went snorkeling again. this time we saw sea snakes, lionfish, zebrafish and crown of thorns starfish. It was such an awesome time to be able to just get out and see some amazing creatures you would probably never see. Aaron Megide found a 5 inch conch shell with a big snail slug hybrid creature with claws and he put it out side to try to dry it out of the shell and it crawled into his room and tried to hide from him. a crazy creature indeed. So today we went to the hundred yen store and was able to pick up some cool stuff. on the way back we saw this punked out kid who had pants that were designed backwards and halfway down the legs. it was weird because thye were still full pants that fit correctly, there were just a seperate part of pockets halfway down the front of the pants. it was pretty weird. So i found out he was hanging out in front of a club called the human stage. so i thought id check it out. Joanna said that it has shows every friday and saturday, so maybe ill check it out provided its not too weird. So yeah im good. pictures updates, check the photobucket.

pictures.

http://s91.photobucket.com/albums/k298/thislittleplanet/

check that link daily for the photos I upload that i have taken. I plan to have over 5,000 taken before i come home. haha

I think i can make it

Japan Day 2

So yeah im finally here in Japan, just hanging out and trying to understand the timing and the easiest way to get over jetlag. I figured it out pretty much, like i cant go to sleep till about 11 pm because if i go to sleep any earlier, then I will be out of wack with my days, so im really trying to stay awake to type this. So if it gets weird, im sorry haha. So last night at about 9:00 PM I and this girl Hannah and a guy named Mark were all picked up from the okinawa airport by Tommy Ruiz, the really awesome pastor that is just one of the nicest men I have ever met, so we went on our way to his house, which is this really big house, but every room is proportioned perfectly to make it like a 4 bedroom house. Plus a two story garage. There are no yards or lawns really out here, no one really has any grass on their property, just sidewalk and fences. Which is so much better then having grass patches around your home because of many reasons: 1) Space effiency, 2) Less wasting of space, and 3) Less hassle of keeping it neat and tidy, instead of just growing a wild bush of grass in your backyard. So once we got there i pretty much put all of my stuff down and then passed out. Then i woke up between 3-5 am on wednesday(which is a day ahead of new york time at this point), took a couple of pictures in the morning and then kind of waited until everyone else got up and then me and Mark decided to take a walk out around where we will be living for the next 4 months. We walked about a mile and a half down the road to find just stores of the most random stuff, that we will most likely never need. Plus the drink vending machines on every corner that are sporting the names of “Boss Coffee” and “Dy Do” which is pretty cool. It comes in handy when you are thirsty, and plus its less then a dollar for each drink. So cheapdrinks are better then any other price, except free of course. So we then stopped at a park that had a 40 ft zipline ride just sitting there, the only problem was that the handles were gone so i couldnt ride it :-/. i really wanted to but i probably would of broke the ride thing. So when we got back to the house, we waited around and then got to the beach! and it was low tide so the water durning low tide goes so far out you can walk like 3 quarters of a mile out toward the sea and be up to your ankles in water. Plus all the coral reefs and athe rocks and the animals are all exposed for everyone to just look at. So we found many interesting animals like sea cucumbers(which you can squeeze and theyll shoot water like a squirtgun), brittle stars, crabs, tropical saltwater fish, puffer fish all of these crazy animals you never see in america. So we then swam around for a little bit. We were also told stories of all these abandoned military underground bases that still exist and they are so easy to get into, because they just dont close them off, they just leave them there to rot, so were going to go check those out as well. Plus inside these caves that exist everywhere in Okinawa, there are just human remains lef from the war that havent been collected, are just sitting there untouched, plus all this crazy ww2bullets and guns and all of this wacky stuff. Then we went to chruch tonite, and it was a really awesome time. ITs such an awesome thing to be out here because no one out here has even heard of Jesus, let alone take advantage of the fact that he loves them, and just outright reject him because its part of a cultural standard. So it was an awesome expierence, Then i met some crazy japanese peope, and now im in bed. more information when more cool things happen!

God Bless and Oyasumi Nasai!

Jeremy

man, its come to my attention someone is reading my journal again.

well, here it goes:

just because we had a fallout in the past and your unwilling to accept any of the blame for what happened does not mean that im a terrible cruel person. this world is full of choices, and you choose what action you make. anything you choose to do is soley your choice and no one persuaded you other wise. if you didnt want to do anything, you didnt have to do it! plain and simple. so while your trying to make excuses for your behavior by pointing the blame on me you are in fact actually hurting yourself, and your current relationship. I dont care about that, its in the past and wish the best of luck for that, but now you have to get over this. you have to grow up and understand its equal faults in this and like ive said over the past two years every now and then, forgiveness gets rid of all the bad crap in peoples lives. I forgave you, and now you should forgive, so you can get over this. I pray for you everyday, I pray that you will get in contact with me and try to work this out, so you can be happy, because that is what you want, to be happy. I speak of God because God pulls everything together. God is there when you werent for me, God is there when i wasnt there for you. God is there when you dont want him to be and when you wish he was the most. dont try to deny this, because any other way to go about this is faulty and purely self centered and will not work. I speak of God because I love God with all my heart and with all my soul, and he loves you, I love you, everyone that knows you loves you and just cares for you, because you need it the most. No matter how pissed you are for me, i have that much and more love for you in hopes that you will come to your senses and understand it wasnt all my fault and that this has as much to do with you as it has to do with me. I wasnt creeping you out, your saying that to try to compensate for mistaken current feelings, you were glad to see me, and you were happy to see that i was healthy. Unless your a nutcase, because only insane people have such hatred for people and cannot get over things that happened over 2 and a half years ago.

if your gonna read my journal, then i hope you will contact me and try to resolve this. we were freaking friends for crap’s sake. we went through high school together and we were best friends, disregarding our relationship(s), you know i was your best friend, and the only reason you would deny that is because of an inner hatred that you have built around the facade of me being this evil narrowminded prick that hates you because of the past. and thats a lie. Look deep inside yourself, and really analyze what you are putting yourself through. while you are pissed about this situation, you really could be doing other things with your life, like riding your awesome looking bike, or spending time in the wilderness with friends that care about you, or play kickball, or remember old memories and search for the people involved and share a good laugh or two. I would hope that one day you will understand, and i hope one day you will contact me, so we can work this out. because i will admit i still dwell on certain things about this id like to close, and i know you do. and we cannot do this until you have a willing heart and an open mind, until then its farewell, but goodbyes are never forever, well just end up seeing each other again on a side road of our lives only wishing we tried to mend things. and that happens weekly, because we live in the same vicinity, so your bound to run into people from your past, and that happens a lot. i speak of God because im fallible, just like you, making choices daily that i regret. Like with you for instance, i would of skipped the beginning physical stages if i could because thats the downfall of every good relationship, thats stuffs for people who are together forever and no less. I speak of God because I know God, I follow God and I rely on God for what i do daily and he helps me through all of it, down to what side of the bed im on.

keep your head up kiddo, im still praying for you, and i still deeply care for you. one day you will realize who God is and how much he has instore for you and your dreams. your mind only goes so far, when God has plans outside of the reaches of your mind that are only 3000000 times better.

ps: im not in your life, but you are currently pushing me in it. if you want me out then why are you looking at my journal, why are you constantly holding a grudge? and why cant you get over this.

Dreams Nothing To Desire

Dear Lady
I promised beautitudes
Dear miss
Ive packed venerating hunger
Dear beauty
Ive grown wearing of debate
Dear tragic
Your dearest conciousness now clinched tight
I seem to be dead

To the eye of the beholder, the sea is a vast wide open shell of iniquities, spawning,
absorbent, feeble, and idiotic adherents. Speaking nothing but latin dissimulatives, and
obvious deterrents.

Mr. Lugibrious i disdain thee.

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