Chinatown and Ishikawacho

Today was a great day.

First, had a pretty easy day at work, 10-2. Had a scheduled free lesson on top of that, and my last lesson was with one of my favourite students. Also my first lesson was with two students, one of whom I know really well (obsessed with exercise). She told us a story at the start of the lesson, saying yesterday she heard her neighbour scream. She went over to investigate and found there was a snake in her neighbour's yard. They call it a shima-hebi (shima: striped, hebi: snake). Apparently its not poisonous so my student just picked up the snake, petted it and let it go free. She said "I like snakes, they're cute," or something to that effect. The other student and I just kinda looked in shock at her before we started laughing in disbelief. Pretty weird... Also, kinda cool :):), I taught this student who hasn't come to Nova for 2 months. No wonder I didn't hear anything about her, she was unbelievably hot! Just graduated, and is going to be flight stewardess for Japan Airlines. Wish she came more. Oh and in case you didn't know, there are two or three other very good looking students at Tsunashima...hehehe.

After work, I headed towards Ishikawacho station, which is a little ways past Yokohama station, and is very near Yokohama Stadium and Chinatown (Motomachi, in Japanese). I met with a guy named Ray Mercer; he's an old friend of Ps. Dennis and is a pastor at Yokohama Grace Bible Church in Ishikawacho. Unfortunately for me, their services are on Sundays 10:30-12:00, and 4:00-5:30, and Wednesdays 10:30-12:00, all of which I'm working on, so I can't attend the normal services. But I did meet some great people who were working and 'hanging out' at the church office. So I had a pretty good time there.

Hung around for a while there before Ray had to get going, so I decided to leave as well and explore Chinatown. I hadn't really eaten anything so I was hoping to get a good meal there too. I basically just got myself lost in Chinatown and wandered the streets. The photos you can see are just some of the streets and buildings. One of them is the place I ate dinner at, and the dish that I ate, which tasted great...but is probably just a tad expensive for the amount, at 840Y. But I haven't had some good Chinese in a while, so it was alright anyway. Chinatown would have been better if I knew exactly where I was, but it was alright anyway. There are stalls everywhere selling these derivatives of pow, like char siew pow, except they looked kinda weird, were a lot larger, had different kinds of meat in it (even prawns (ebi)) and were quite expensive (1 pow for like 300-500Y).

I then TRIED to find my way back to Ishikawacho, and eventually walked into a convenience store to ask for directions. In the end, I found the JR rail (which is quite visible, continuing over the streets) and followed it to the next station, Kannai. Finally headed back for home.

Was a good day all in all. Nice to spend some time around other Christians and in a church as well, after not having been for over a month.
Oh, two of the last pictures are of Yokohama Stadium (not that tall), and the last one is a view across from the river in Tsunashima; that's a driving school around my area.