September 15, 2013 Letter

First of all to the missionaries I send this too. My advice is that if you straight up don't have time don't read this. Second, if you really want to read it and have time later but now don't then take a picture of it on you camera and then read it later. I learned that from a sister in my district and it has pretty much saved my life

10:46 Somewhere in the east

Transfers:

So I said somewhere in the east because this week is transfers. Transfer happen every 6 weeks and missionaries switch leadership positions, companions, areas, all three or maybe none. I have not switch areas but I got a phone call and I am switching companions! My new companion's name is Yamamoto Choro (yes he is very much Japanese) I have only meant him twice and very briefly because he only knows Japanese (WOOT WOOT! That is a HUGE blessing for my language) but what I do know about him is he wants to become a chef. Fun fact: I feel like in the states if you say you are going to be a chef its kind of not respected a ton but here is super respectable. So I will be eating like a champion. He can do two finger pushups: that is one arm and only two fingers touching the ground. I can do one arm 5 fingers but when I put down two fingers only I cried for my moma and gave up. Give me 6 weeks and I will master it!

Weather:

I could talk for hours about the weather alone but today is a special day because it is a taifun! (I think it is spelled different in English.) Pretty much it just means super windy super rainy and tons of thunder down here. But I can check it off my bucket list and so I thought I would brag it up to you guys.

Fun food fact:

Lets talk about mugicha. It is like a tea but you can drink it. I actually don't know what it is from but its everywhere! It's like sweat tea in the south and water in the north. If it is a semi-hot day and you go to someone's house they are totally going to hook you up with a glass. If there is a big meal with lots of people at the church, for sure the drink is mugicha. It's everywhere and its for all ages. It is light brown in color. In the summer it's cold and in the winter it's hot! Sometimes if you are feeling wild you can mix that rule up a bit. In the mtc I had a half Japanese elder describe it in a way that I think fits perfectly. "It's fire water" that is what he called it and the reason is not that it burns like whisky (people out there are going "yeah cause you know what whisky tastes like") but because it tastes like you lit a match let it burn all the way and then dropped it in water and stirred. Now, the first time I drank it this description was perfect and I dreaded when people saw the sweat on my face and ran in the back to grab me a drink (ok the word dread is a bit strong it isn't that strong of a taste for anyone to really dread it) but I didn't really like it that much. Then I started to not even notice a taste it was like water! Now I kind of love it. If there is a pitcher of both I will grab the mugicha. It is oddly refreshing and just clean feeling; like nature and hydration came together in a tea.

Culture point:

Trains, buses and phones. So this might be because I am from a small town in Washington and have never really ridden public transportation but this was rather interesting to me. You cannot call people on your phone on a bus or train. It's not only just a cultural rule but it is actually the bus and trains systems rule. They announce it all the time! There are like a million people on the bus ands it's dead silent except for me asking the person next to me lots of questions (talking is ok its just they normally have no reason because they dont know anyone) and my questions are about japan at first so they get a feel for how bad my Japanese is then about Japan's religion because I am into religion of late and then what they think about the whole thing. It's super natural and I learn lots (mostly I learn lots of new words then I look them up later but I get better at it every time!). So can you talk on the phone on the bus and train in America?

Spiritual thought:

So we are at a cross roads with a lot of people. They have told us what they desire and it is to come closer to Christ and God and they wish to follow the commandments. Now they have to do. Honestly I feared for them. My faith was weak and with elder Takeshita leaving I was really kind of worried. Then I came to this scripture really rather randomly Moroni 8:16 "...Behold, I speak with boldness, having authority from god; and I fear not what man can do; for perfect love casteth out all fear." (if you want an interesting couple hours study the word fear in the Bible, Book of Mormon and D&C) You know what? I repented. Not of my fear, though that was from Satan, but for my lack of love. I think of those that are dearest to me and I would have absolute faith that they could change for the better if they wanted to. I loved these people more, I studied answers to there questions harder, I prayed for them harder, and I thought about how I could serve them more. Even though their positions have not changed in the slightest, I have twice the faith and hope for them. Love them.

Funny story:

So if you know elder takeshita this story is way funnier but I think it is still pretty good. You have to understand Japanese are very polite and outside of the apartment all the missionaries agree he is the most polite and formal of Japanese.

It's a normal day in the nagamachi elder apartment. We eat a big breakfast and study and then start to kind of munch for lunch and then we get a phone call that a brother can in fact eat lunch with us at the church. So we throw a huge thing of "takeshita special" in a tub and hit the road (I will make you takeshita special sometime its super good). The member is 24 so the three of us eat like males our age do when we are together and we are stuffed to the gills (we had munched before and we didn't want to pack the food back home so we literally pounded a ton). Then we road up a mountain for about an hour and a half. It is the longest bike ride we do on a semi normal basis and we were dying. Takeshita says he might be sick but he calms down and we knock on the door. Because it was such a long bike ride she bought us lunch! This is a funny ironic story all alone but the best part is what it was when she brought it out: a little bigger then a normal sheet of copy paper size tray for each one of us! AND on the tray was piled sushi. Raw fish for days (Takeshita choro hates raw food). We had been worried this sister didn't really feel our love so this was super good news and yet horrible news. We ate it and after Takeshita choro said he literally doubled the amount of raw fish he has consumed in his whole life. I will send you a picture next week! (nobody threw up)

 

1 Nephi 3:7

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord has commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

Love each other for me!

Law Choro

September 9, 2013 Letter

20:15 hours (Super late I know. Its been a crazy day)

Our most recent zone pic. We have the biggest zone in the mission by about 10 people and there are 4 zones.

 

Barracks:

It is the mission moma`s birthday this week. She is pretty much super rich compared to us missionaries and the only ones with pretty handwriting are the Japanese, but she cant read konji, so a card was out. That left just the service option. Her biggest worry is we are all going to die in our own filth. Fixated in our mold and grime. I have always been a bit of a momas boy so I completely share her concerns! So the whole zone's present was to totally dominate the apartments with cleaning and then take pictures and video to send her. So that is what we have been doing today! You know those fun hoods above stoves? We have one. But it hasn't been run or cleaned in my guess is 10 years. That might be a bit long or maybe a bit short. Edwards choro might be able to enlighten us? Anyway it's bad. This aint my first rodeo! I have been in the duplexes. But oh my grease! I carved a "I heart mom" with a screw driver into the filth and it was a lot of work (the picture is sick though). My hands have this permanent oilyness to them and I worked for like 3 hours and still there is no way I would lick the thing but it is pretty good on the eye! I also finally really cleaned the shower drain. There have been lots of flies and bugs crawling and flying out every time I turned the water on. It's not like American drains or I would have done it sooner! I think they were eating the hair ball creature thing. Maybe Japanese hair is edible?

Samurai Castle that we visited

Me being a samurai in a samurai castle. Pretty much awesome! No it is not a real sword. Yes that pose is the biggest regret of my mission so far.

Japanese language:
Fun fact for you all. you know onamonapia? Thank you Mrs. Macatee! If you don't look it up. In English they are used a lot but have a bit of a silly connotation and is regarded as slightly childish and cute. In Japanese it is as professional as any other word! The interesting part is what they choose to make the sound! For example "tsurutsuru" means "slippery" and "kirakira" means "sparkly" and a small object rolling (like a pencil) makes the sounds "korakora"! It's super fun to learn and when I use them all the Japanese are super impressed and kind of confused. "Why does he know the word for a rolling small object and the word  for 'abraideth not' (james 1:5) but he doesn't know the word for dog?" (its inu by the way. I looked it up).

One of my favorite missionaries! Ohori Choro, my first AP. The most obedient missionary in the whole mission and he can grow a samurai mustache in about 6 hours. This stage is hour one and closely resembles the southern direction of North America... Cousin to the samurai mustache. Get it?

Culture fun fact:

So they love English. They cant speak it at all (people will tell you before your mission that everyone can speak it and they are trying to trick you) but they have all studied it a ton. A lot of their media entertainment is originally in English. They are really smart so they like the challenge of a different language I guess. If something is "cool" it will normally have its name big in romanji (English letters) and then under in Japanese (all the instructions/ingredients/description is in Japanese too so it doesn't much help me).

 

My Saturday night English class and a bunch of missionaries. We have way too much fun and even play Uno to learn English. Weird I know.

Food fact:

Rice. Imagine you took all the carbs you eat: noodles, bread, potatoes, rice, tortillas..... and you switched it out with rice. That is how rice is here. They also use it the other stuff too. It's better then our rice so it makes sense. Everyone has a rice cooker and that is pretty much all they use, even the fancy (I have no idea if it was fancy but it felt pretty fancy to me) restaurants serve it right out a rice cooker. It's not cheap either. For 10 kg you pay 40 bucks. Supply and demand I guess.

Big shout out to my awesome older sister Christine! I am now officially super happy, super safe, super stylish, and super bright. My companion is now officially super embarrassed all the time. The fanny-pack, the basket, and now the vest!

Funny Story:

So there isn't really a culminating moment of this but I have to share it. The reason I talked about Japanese loving English so much is the fact that almost all the clothes here have English writing on them. BUT not all the clothes here are made in English speaking countries. At least I think that is what happened because the English is super weird. It starts off with just random! For example, there is a sister (super young and fashionable) in the ward that always wears these shoes. The left says "yes" huge on the toe and the right says "no". Then it gets odd (this category is bigger then you might think): "want to interest me?" huge on the front of some ladies shirt. What the heck does that mean?! But the worst is the ones that are designed by the Americans for preppy dirty young men, instructions sent to china to be made, the Chinese make them, then ship them to Japan. Somewhere along the line the label "this shirt should only be worn if you have a dirty mind and want to wear it on your shirt in a 'clever' way" goes missing. (These are the shirts the kid in 8th grade is wearing inside out because my mom made him flip it. Now there are four other kids looking up his shirt to see what it says and he is smugly smiling and nodding his head.) These same shirts are randomly divided among the racks in Japan and randomly bought and worn! I have seen anything from a mother of three to business men. I guess the bishop a couple districts over had a couple bad ones... I would quote them if I wasn't a missionary.

My jaw always drops and then I just laugh and look over at my companion to do the "did you see that?!?!" and then I just sigh. Lol (don't take that wrong way. I am sooo grateful for a Japanese companion). He asked me why I laughed one time and I told him. He says he completely understands my situation. I asked him why. He explained that there are really popular websites in Japan where they have huge blogs of American tattoos. The ones in Japanese... "oh yeah this one here means hope!" This tattoo guy probably knows Japanese right?

Love each other for me!

Law choro

September 2, 2013 Letter

19:39 Pacific Front

Moral: Way too high! I have been sooo busy this week and everything we do is fun!

Fun food fact:

So you know when you get a sun burn and your mom slathers you in vinegar? This isn't about that heartless mother, its about the loving mother who puts aloe vera on her children. We have all rubbed it on with a love hate, soothing and sticky relationship. You might have even had a life skills teacher or two that had a plant in their classroom. It's like medicine, one of the medicine man tricks that works like money. Turns out you can eat it!

 They peel it, throw it in some sugar water that is kind of like canned pineapple water (notice the Dole) and then you pound it. The way I had it was you put a big bowl of plain yogurt (not vanilla plain and I could talk to you about that for an hour! I will next week!) then you sprinkle some brown sugar on the yogurt and throw some aloe on it. Super super tasty! Oddly enough the closest thing I can say it tastes like is a big peeled grape!

I also eat Indian curry

Culture fact:

Malls. I kind of talked about this before I think; it's starting to get to the point where I can't remember what I have told you! haha But the malls have something totally different about them and I finally figured out what it is! There is no real walls. In America there is a whole bunch of stores and they are all in the same building. Like you walk into a store through a door and then walk around almost in a separate room. In Japan the separate stores don't have doors because they don't have a front wall! Half the time they don't have side walls either; they just flow from one into another. It seems like it would be a security nightmare but I think they just don't have that big of a problem with it. People are awesome like that here. Sometimes I am kind of confused where to pay though. haha

Spiritual thought:

I would like to take you to the bible today, the gospel of Mathew. The Pharisees are talking to Christ and one of them, a lawyer it says (the worst ones are always lawyers ;-)) asks him, tempts him even with a question: "which is the great commandment in the law?". This is what He said, " thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the laws of the prophets"

I love the last bit. I love it all and really could stop right there and be a content as a clam. The focus is the first bit and it is my opinion that we should all focus on doing that bit. But as an after thought I would like to add this. The last bit, where is says all the rest of the commandments and teachings of the prophets hang on the first two, I love it! If ever I lack the "WHY" why is this commandment important? Why are you giving me this answer to my prayer? Why do the scriptures tell me this? I always find the answer in the first two great commandments. God is the creator of this universe and so his laws always are the most, natural, efficient, and correct. We live in a world of men so sometimes we are blinded by this lesser level of thinking, but if we look hard enough we can always see the truth of God's way. I testify this way brings happiness, in Christ's name. Amen.

 

 Long story I will have to explain later

I made delicious pancakes!

Funny story:

So there is a brother that we try to visit every other week at least. He is about 1000 years old, sweet as they come, and a little crazy maybe. We repeat a lot of our messages because he has a hard time remembering. He is sooooo kind and lives on his own because he is a stud and his house is always spotless! I love him!

So we ring his doorbell. Nothing, no big deal, this is normal. So we yell "COOONICHIWAAAA.." super normal and very japanese poi (it means ish and is a super useful word). We hear a shuffling and see some movement through the textured window. He starts walking toward the door and we begin to make out his human form... his oddly all the same color human form. The color is a tannish white. I think the technical name for the color is actually nude. All the same color. I start the slightly cocked head and stare with a "no, no, no..." under my breath. My companion's normally cute little squinty eyes aren't squinting. He always walks up to the window that is right by the door and opens it to see who it is before he opens the door. The window come flying open. It come to about his belly button. I was actually surprised by how good he looked! Pretty buff and pretty shirtless.... "oh! it's the missionaries! Good to see you... let me open the door!" He is half deaf folks; He couldn't understand our screams of terror let alone our cries to stop. The door come flying open and all he is wearing is a smile...

 

and a pair of nude colored boxers. Who the heck makes nude colored boxers?! I almost died! Some other time I will give you a culture point on people's answering the door clothes... Oddly naked.

I promise there is a point to this picture

Bike ride with the President

My companion:

This might be a bit long and boring for all of you but I want it for me after and my moma will want it. Takeshita choro! He is from just north of Tokyo, he could get on a train and be home in literally less then a few hours. This is the Boise Idaho mission of his world but he has learned to truly love it he tells me! I would physically describe him but you all have pictures!

His hobbies before the mission were the clarinet (he doesn't know who Squidward is) and traveling. When I say traveling it's not really what I think most Americans think of as traveling. He would get a summer train ticket (all you can ride type of deal) and then he would literally go all over japan by himself by train. He wouldn't really go to specific tourist places but sometimes certain festivals though. He would just spend all day riding, listening to music, reading a books he bought at the last stop, eating good snacks, napping, looking out the window. He LOVES this! So he also loves everything about trains! The older slower ones are better than the bullet trains. I asked him why and he asked me if I would rather ride in a 747 or biplane. I said good point.

He is incredibly smart and wants to design trains when he gets home. He was in an accelerated schooling program thing sounds kind of like running start and a.p. classes mixed. Kind of cool!

His family is him, his parents (both converts in there teens and returned missionaries) and a little sister who is 19 and has a "severe handicap". I don't really know much more than that but she is still small (like 10ish size). I asked if she likes pens too and he says yes and she also loves milk.

He is the most loving missionary in the world. He gets so emotionally into the people we teach! Sometimes it makes him so tired but it is such a blessing to us! He is very good with correcting my Japanese (he dad is a teacher who teachers radio, news, and other professional speakers how to speak Japanese correctly and beautifully and I think it rubbed off). He is super humble and treats me as a 50 50 partner in all decisions even though he is my trainer. He loves summer weather like I have never seen anyone! He is the best chef in the mission according to all and I learned how to make some kick bum Japanese food from him! He is as obedient as they come and it makes getting along the easiest thing in the world. He might be the only person in the world who drinks more milk then me before the mission (I have quit. It is too expensive and it's different so I am not as tempted).

He is very Japanese in almost every way except two. I could talk for an hour about how Japanese he is but instead I will tell you the two weird things. He doesn't like raw food. SUPER weird for a Japanese person. Eggs, fish, vegetables, you name it he prefers it cooked but can eat anything! The second makes me laugh.. I am actually going to use it as a funny story! Sorry.. another day...

I love you all! Love someone for me!

Law Choro

 

August 26, 2013 Funny Story

 

So as real as all that looks I have to tell you that it was actually staged and it wasn't even a reenactment! I just want to get that pang in your heart so you all remember how much you love me. You weren't even worried about my face (which couldn't get any worse) but I could have lost some serious brain cells with an impact like that. But super weird right?! They look like concrete or metal and are everywhere just like in the states but they bend! It's a super cool idea to me! Saves the cars and does the same purpose! But they seriously look exactly the same as the states one!

So here is the story: It happened in my first couple weeks (I wanted to put these pictures with it but never had time to take them until my companion had a 10 minute phone call on the road). So we pull up to a stop light. I can't speak smooth worth a darn so I make up for it with my smooth movements and body language. A great writer once described it as moving like a dancer. That was what I was doing, moving like a dancer. My seat was in perfect cycling height so a bit high to comfortably stand so I saw one of the metal (solid I thought) post and headed for it. There was a man also at the light and I want to talk to him in a cool interesting manner so I went a bit wide of the post to be closer to him. I am young and flexible I will just throw my leg out a bit and catch it with ease. If you have seen the movie Tangled, the part where he is tied to the chair and first realizes who he is talking to and say, "hey.. the names Flynn Rider". That's wrong but you know the scene: great voice, great eyes, and smooth head swivel. That was what I was about to do with my "conichiwa". I slow down perfect, perfect spot to talk to him do a beautiful head swivel, am about o say conichiwa, my foot perfect finds the post, I put weight on the post for support and the post just keeps going....... if I had been  right above it it would have been all dandy, but I was at maximum range already folks! my poor hamstring was young but when I say I am a dancer I am talking hairyhiette not molahiette!

With a girlish squeal instead of a conichiwa I pretty much ate dirt. The Lord humbled me and still let me talk to that guy! hahaha but I really do love those things now! Super cool!

Love you all!

Love someone for me!

Law Choro

August 26, 2013 Photo Update

Photo from my area. My camera is sweet!

More of the area.

One of my favorite Elders! He beat me at arm wrestling but I beat someone who beat him... We have a rematch next week. He is from New Zealand, Kararia Choro.

My dictionary that I use all day everyday.

 

So this is kind of a long story but super funny! A lady lives really far away from the train (the tsunami destroyed that part of the tracks) so the walk was really long so she had these extra bikes that she gave us to leave at the train station so we can be more time effective.. its super cute.

 

Here is a library, which my companion thinks is super boring looking.

Super awesome family that we had dinner with. This is only my second member dinner and I ate like a king.

We had a primary activity!

They don't make anything but cute Japanese kids

 What real rice looks like

Super cool right? Sporting the 2013 Law family reunion shirt

So every three months we have a zone pday and have fun! The first one was the bbq and this was the 2nd. Way too fun!

We have little paper targets so you can actually get out. It's like paintballing. Super fun!

 

We wanted to be fun so we went to a thrift store, bought super crappy suits, and were men in black.

 

Everyone for the water fight.

 

 

August 26, 2013 Letter

The East front 15:27 I don't even have to convert that because the clock on the computer (like all clocks in japan) is in military time! But you read it as normal time. Look you get two fun facts today!

 

Everyone is so genki! (it means like happy, healthy optimistic, bouncy... and more! super good word) thank you for that! Now I am extra genki! So my goal today is a medium letter and lots of pictures! ikimasho! (lets go!)

Language:

There is a long time when learning a language (I talk like I am a master but this is what I have felt and others have agreed with me) when you can say a lot of simple little sentences because you know a few grammar things and a bunch of basic vocab. But when anyone talks to you you have not the slightest clue what there are saying. Then you get into the ear sate where you can understand a lot of what people say and you totally get what they are asking but you just don't know how to correctly reply! I am in that second stage! hahah I used to have the worst ears in my whole douki! (its like your classmates.. we don't really have a good word for it in English.. the people that flew here the same day as me are my douki) but living with only Japanese people people has been such a blessing! 

Barracks: 

So occasionally the mission mom will inspect your apartment, keeps people on their toes, and makes sure they are safe with good fire alarms and C02 detectors ect.. But we live in the homebu (mission home) so we have the AP's. The AP's. are beloved, sacred angels, they could never have a dirty apartment right? So we never get checked, ever. But as a fun little treat president decided he would schedule a little walk with the member of the 70 that is here. That little walk was scheduled through our apartment. This is actually a huge blessing for me! The place is spotless!!! They all killed it, like little Japanese bees buzzing all over! Our back step is about 5 feet deep of garbage bags filled with who knows what, but it needed to happen and garbage day is tomorrow so no one will know!

Culture fact:

Today it is in the funny story

Fun food fact: 

So I never told you my least favorite food. There is a thing called nato (right now all the returned Japanese guys are chuckling), it is beans. Fermented beans that are probably really healthy and they eat them with rice, eat them plane, roll them in sushi, mix with raw egg, put on toast, anything. They love them and ask you if you CAN eat them. What type of question is that? A good one. The reason is they taste like poop and smell worse. The best way I can describe the smell is if stick a sharpie up your nose. I don't know, maybe I will become a man and like them but right now: not for this pup. But I did try them! Mom, you would drop your jaw at what I eat. I pile on  the mayonnaise on some food. I Cameron Law eat mayonnaise on purpose. Maybe that snowball has a chance after all.

Spiritual thought:

So I shared this the other night with a family who had had a touching experience in their life. I don't care who you are, you will either want to look back and remember this time or your children or grandchildren will. I think that alone is enough reason to make a journal and use it. It's a pain sometimes and I am one of the worst of us so don't think I am talking down to you but it is important! Alma 37: 9-11 (Christine I love you)
9: Yea, I say unto you, were it not for the things that these records do contain, which are on these plates, Ammon and his brethren could not have convinced so many thousands of the Lamanites of the incorrect tradition of their fathers; yea, these records and their words brought them unto repentance; that is, they brought them to the knowledge of the Lord their God, and to rejoice in Jesus Christ their redeemer.
10: And who knoweth but what they will be the means of bringing many thousands of them, yea, and also many thousands of our stiff-necked brethren, the Nephites, who are now hardening their hearts in sin and iniquities, to the knowledge of the Redeemer?
11: Now these mysteries are not yet fully made known unto me, therefore I shall forbear.

The power of words! Those men were prophets of God who wrote the scripture but probably they felt like normal people! If you don't want to do it for you or your kids then do it for God. To show your appreciation for all that you have and so He can use it later if He want to! I have repented of my horrible journal skills and have received sooo many blessings already! I suck at writing so your guyses will be even bigger blessings!

Love you all! Love someone for me!

Law Choro

August 21, 2013 Letter

I am super sorry but this is going to be short. We had a crazy crazy p-day and I have some sweet pictures to show you next Monday! I feel bad but hope you were all worried about me because I am so lovable... 

 

Mom those were some crazy stories.. I will comment more on them next week.

Fun food fact! Mom's question was how is the fast food. I had not a clue so that very same day I ordered one of everything off the dollar menu at makudonarudo (McDonalds) and here is the report:

• Ice cream: they have the exact same base I think but the chocolate is more of a dark chocolate, less sweet and more of a rich flavor, and kind of maltish almost.
• Hamburger: disturbingly similar; exactly the same actually. I know air mail takes at least a week. That much meet was probably on a freight ship...how old is the meat and why doesn't it change after months at sea?
• French fries: not quiet the same... a little dry and not so... idk! We have all have mediocre fast food fries and these were them. 
• Chicken nuggets: better! They look the same on the outside but the inside kind of looks like the real texture of chicken! I was super stoked about that!
• All in all it about the same! And if you say "bu da bu bu buuu" everyone will still shout "I'm lovin' it" 

Culture fact! Alright moma asked two weeks in a row so my answer is finally here. Pets:

Yes they have them but they much prefer dogs! For the first month all I ever saw were these blonde short little huskyish dogs. Like I saw three of them everyday and nothing but them and I was like "yo takeshita choro all japan has the same dog" and he said I was crazy and he didn't even know what dog I was talking about. I was like "ill show you the next ten times we see that dog!" after that I haven't seen that type of dog but I have seen 100 other types. Really big dogs are super rare and really small dogs are kind of rare. They like the medium ones. I have a cat house story that would make dad cry; but another day. Cats are super rare.

Funny story:

We cook every meal so I am kind of becoming pro! I chop, I fry, I peel, I boil, I am pro. So I was dominating this giant pile of onions (I have never eaten as many onions in my entire life as I have these last 2 months) and the burning starts to happen. Normalish... then it starts to get really bad: tears and the squinting and the whimpering and then Ahhh!ing ext.. then I throw them all in the hot sesame oil and a bit of hot oily onion juice sprays me in both eyes! I am tuff but no man can take onion to the eye and not break. I scream and blindly panicky like feel my way to the bathroom. I push open the door and head to the sink, turn on the water and stick both hands in to get water to wash. I forgot however that we were cooking and while we cook we turn the water up to 75 degrees Celsius so we can boil the water fast.

Burning eyes, burnt hands, I go screaming into an ironic laughing crying mess.

Gods works in mysterious ways and that story is super sunny to me now and brings me joy! Laugh at our stupidity.

Love someone for me!

Law choro