As promised, part 2 of my Thanksgiving break trip…This is Japan. I spent a total of 3 mere days in a country that hosts innumerable places to explore. Japan is a dream place to hit for so many people and I would definitely come back again for a longer period of time to really delve into the depths of the cool discoveries that Tokyo holds. To be honest I don’t really know how to start this post because I feel like I really only barely skimmed the surface of what Tokyo and Japan has to offer. Nevertheless, here we go.
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Thanksgiving break is usually a week for students to go home, binge eat comfort food, and stress about upcoming finals while trying to relax. Sadly, I haven’t celebrated American Thanksgiving because I haven’t been actually been in the US on that day for 7 consecutive years now. But that’s okay because this year I left school a few days early and went to Bali and Belitung Islands in Indonesia and Tokyo in Japan. Bali’s volcano Mt. Agur just erupted a few days after I left Bali. Thank goodness for timing because it erupted a few weeks before we arrived as well. Having been able to escape that and safely land back in the US, here’s a brief overview of how I explored Bali and the Belitung Islands of Indonesia in 4 days. Tokyo will be in the next post.
July 13th, 2017 I stood in the Bogota airport in Colombia with tears falling down my face. I think it was my first time crying in an airport. But how could I not when I had to part ways from my wonderfully loving, warm, and caring Youth for Christ host family that I had spent over 3 weeks with? Those weeks I spent in Colombia were organized by CTI Music Ministries in partnership with Youth for Christ Colombia. CTI trains musicians and sends them out to different countries to serve and spread the gospel through music, so I was sent to Bogota, Colombia after two weeks of training in the US with my band.
Yesterday I went to Whistler, BC to go snowboarding and on one of the ski lifts I was talking to an 8 year old boy who was from Toronto but visiting Whistler for a ski trip and he told me it was beautiful here and his dream was to get a job and move here to British Columbia one day when he’s older. I told him to remember that dream and don’t forget to pursue it because too often people have dreams as a kid but when they get older they forget their goals and become complacent in their comfort. Not to say my life is goals, but I did make goals and I am adamant about following through with them. That brings us to today where I’ve been living in Vancouver now for almost a month.
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