practicing a talk with a primary-school lassie
 Using my friend Mizho ("Mittan") as an example: we get handed out these territory cards  and on the back the names are listed so we tick off who we met, and we keep records for the whole year so we know who we never got to meet (and then write letters to them) 1. satellite map of territory
2. name of each household 
The Japs don't like being subject to harsh weather. Or anything really.
So one thing that comes in handy (or leggy) is this foot-warmer device (a bit like a hot-water bottle that comes in a sticker format). What you do is, it is made of carbon and aluminium powder, and when it gets into contact with air it starts heating up. For 5 hours. So you take it out the pouch, shake it a bit so that the stuff inside gets mixed with air, and then you stick it on to your feet so that your feet won't get too cold inside your shoes. This keeps you going even when the Nth person has slammed the door in your face agai 
average vending machine.
Featuring: teas (green and milk tea and hoji tea) coffees (8 types) corn pottage soup hot honey and lemon acerola juice....etc etc Those with red stickers below can indicate "hot". They come out the machine scalding hot. 
The Japanese NEED to know where exactly the train doors are going to be and WHICH carriage it is going to be.
Yahoo! Transit also tells you which carriage you should be on for maximum quickness of transfers (like get on carriage 3 as the escalator will be right in front of you) I think it was through Ai that I first got in touch with the Asajile family in Zanzibar, but they are a lovely family and we see each other every convention (until Bunju) and Zone Visit. Anyway this time I went to their little group they have near Bububu in the Spice Farms area. 
Walking to the meeting. From left: Agatha, little Esther, Me, Kelsi, Jessica and Nikita (Kelsi's Saffa friends)
a kind truck driver gave us a lift halfway!
multitasking mother we met on our way
The "hall" was a room in a brother's house. The speaker for the day was not Kelsi...
The talk went nicely till it started raining like mad. The speaker had to wait for it to subside (which it didn't). So there was like this 30second rain-ceasefire where the speaker managed to summarize his talk in 2 sentences. Then the rain went away and we all enjoyed the watchtower with all of us commenting in swahili (they even picked on me to read...maybe I was too quiet) 
The second brother from the right, front row is the SP that Ben flung from his bike. He said it really hurt but now he is fine. After that we all walked with banana-leaf umbrellas, had lunch with the Asajiles and went home! 
I wonder how long it would take for people to see this on my ankle and what they would say(considering its winter in jp). Personally I quite like it.
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