New Year's, Volunteering

We had a good new year!  We spent it at Stray Sheep drinking and playing N64.  Man that N64 brings back some memories.  I remember playing Smash Bros. at Ike's back when he still lived at his parents, and playing Mario Golf when we used to have sleep overs at my house all the time.  Seems like yesterday but I know already it was many years ago.  Time sure flies.  I'm sure it won't be all that long before I'm talking about this entire trip to Japan as if it were in the past.

The weekend after I went to volunteer for Kesennuma.  It was an awesome experience.  The whole organizational side of it wasn't put together so well, and we ended up not doing a whole lot of work, but that's ok.  I went, I did.  That's what matters.  Seeing how much we got done that day vs how much there is left to do, and I can see that cleaning up Kesennuma will take the better part of many, many years.  We went to Iwaisaki, a famous place in Kesennuma with a blowhole thing near the ocean.  We cleaned it for a while and then met up with some of the other volunteers afterwards for dinner and drinks.  Met some awesome people and had a really good time.  Definitely planning to go again!

I feel like I've already made a decision on staying another year or not.  The thing is to see how people on the other side react to it.  It's not an easy decision by any means.  I'm still thinking about it actually.  Why do I have to be on the verge of 29 right now??

光陰矢のごとし【こういんやのごとし】 (kouinya/no/gotoshi)(idiom) time flies