A Vanishing Part of Japan

Retailing has changed drastically in Japan since we arrived. Big box stores, particularly big box drug stores, have all but made extinct the little corner drug stores that used to be everywhere in Japan. The few that survive do so through personal connections, I suspect. Here's an interview with one remaining store owner. A little slice of life in Japan:

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Pharmacist Masaaki Goto | The Japan Times Online

Boys' Club

This was a project we did with the boys in our monthly Boys' Club. Design your own cabinet/shelf/box, we'll buy the materials together, and then we'll build the projects. Well, we wrapped that up, and some of the projects looked like the boys had designed them on their own.
In the picture above, one boy is carefully following the drawing he drafted.

Don is helping one boy make a straight cut on the wood, but not his thumb. No injuries, other than a few slivers, from this project.

We've also been reading about some heroes. Daniel was one, unafraid in the face of intimidation and certain death. Joseph is another, and we're still working through his story right now. The study of "out of the frying pan, into the fire" biblical heroes.