Jet Lag

I envy those people who have no problem with jet lag. It has been almost 4 days and I am still a bit tired. If anybody else who went on the trip bounces around me and talks about how perky they feel, I may want to growl at them. This too shall pass. I've been told it can take a week or two for some people to fully get back to normal.

The trip was wonderful. Eventually I hope to go back, make corrections and add to my blog about our experiences. The little computer I used had keys that would stick so there are more errors than I would like. A lot were corrected but many remain. The blog contains the word "beautiful" over and over, and it was beautiful, but maybe I can come up with something more descriptive?

Each evening, after touring all day, many of us were very tired. We walked miles every day and saw a lot. My little blog does not do it justice. Perhaps I can go back and use more descriptions, more precise terminology and more historical background, but the actual trip was still better than any description I can write.

We hope to go back to all three countries some time. That is something I did not expect. It looks like there will be opportunities to do short term missions teaching Conversational English. Japan is likely to require that the persons teaching be ordained in addition to having a teaching degree. That's fine. John has both and, if all goes well, I will too. I taught for many years and am now a licentiate in process of seeking ordination. Lots of mission and community ministries prefer or even require a person be ordained (such as hospitals or the police department), even for short term volunteers. We are in no hurry to move to another country at this stage in our life but taking a group for a short term mission, or going ourselves sometimes, would be great. Maybe some in our church would want to go places too, on their own.