Meet your 2007 team

Paul, Justin, Hannah, TJ, Teresa, Hiro, and Jean!!
Go, team, go!!!

Why teresa why

SO. 1. i aleady have a demerit.
2. i am totally stoked for Japan!
today, i met up with my former sensei and shared how I was going to Japan. I am excited about using what I have learned and making new friendships, but more importantly, to see what God can do there. I have so much love for the culture, but I want my heart to break just as much for them. I want to have a heart that cant wait to share the gospel, not just a heart that wants to eat good food and travel. I know i need to be preparing for this.. afterall its only a couple of months away, but to be honest my mind has been stuck on graduating and finding a job. But in the midst of all of this, i've been having some great qts. the book of Job just boggles my mind.. i love it. anyway, its nite nite time..

JAPANESE 101

welcome...welcome!
i'm excited for this new year, this new team, this new journey!
it'll be simply A-mazing!

so to start, thanks to our dear sister from past, Trina, we have this handy dandy chart to kick us off in speaking japanese!


Thank you (4 ways)
-Domo (informal)
-Arigato (slightly more formal)
-Domo arigato gozaimasu (most formal)
-Okini (according to Trina, this is Osaka dialect & she thinks they'll think it's cute and funny if you say this one)

You are welcome
-Doitashimaste (how i learned it? slur the phrase: "don't touch my moustache" ;) )

Excuse me
-Sumimasen

I'm sorry (2 ways)
-Gomenasai
-Sumimasen

OK
-Daijyobu (e.g. Are you OK? = Daijyobu?)

Good morning
-Ohayo gozaimasu

Good afternoon
-Konnichiwa

Good evening
-Konbanwa
-Obandesu

Good night
-Oyasuminasai

Goodbye
-Sayonara

See you later
-Mata ne! (informal)


...and more to come!!