Day Sixteen: The Sagamihara Housing Area

up at 3pm, everyone is frantic and getting ready for joe horlachers eagle court of honor. I feel like a bum sitting at my computer trying to secure somewhere for me to sleep on sunday night instead of helping out.

everyone heads out at about 530 and im there by myself. I tool around on the internet some more and find some possibilities of where to stay in Osaka. I leave the house and walk down the road to where the court of honor will be.

ben and takeshi and bens sister meet me on the way. they drive me back to the house.

so the news is that apparently there was going to be a religious revival scheduled in the same place where the court of honor was supposed to be held. they were all going back to get some necessary provisions for the night since some of the other goodies were taken up by the pickin and a singin of the revival that was set to happen in the room right next to the room we would be in.

things went on as planned. the whole she-bang started at 7, there were plenty of people, plenty of food and plenty of good times.

the music next door was so loud that through the entire eagle scout court of honor, we had a soundtrack of gospel music and old timey “hallelujahs” coming to us straight from our friends next door. it rang throughout the whole building.

it was a lot of fun and it was for sure good times.

that night we cleaned up and brought all the stuff back to bens house. I spent the evening from there trying to figure out how I could be able to return back home sometime in the first week of june. as it turns out, the airline people are claiming I cant change my flight plan no matter what I do, so I have to buy another ticket for a one way road back to America. a one way ticket right now to Atlanta now would run about $2400

can anyone else feel my frustration here? is this not ridiculous?

so I got my folks workin on this as well as bens father who seems knowledgeable on this type of thing. hopefully I can go back home early for a price significantly lower and not the same amount of money that I could use to buy a car or about 15 nintendo wii’s

on to osaka