April Birthdays and we now have officers for the club!

So admittedly, I'm bad at blogging. I won't make any excuses because saying that I'm busy with all the activities would make this even worse! You can even blog from your phone now, but I'm not here to talk about blogging.

We continue our amazing celebration of birthdays with the April babies, there was a big ice cream cake because there were quite a few of them so on April 6th we decided to celebrate them all at once cause we love them all! Here's a list of the April babies in case you didn't know already:
Beau Chang
Paul Takemoto
Ken Oyadomari
Mark Haimoto
Casey Fukuda
Ian Hanakahi
There was also some karaoke time, but let's not talk about that...In addition to celebrating all the birthdays in the month of April we also officially formed the BSC Fellowship Club again and this time we have officers. We have a round of what we hope to be temporary officers until we have an official election in the fall. The current officers are:
President: Wayde Toyama
Vice-President: Jess Galacgac
Treasurers: Koshin Soga and Paul Takemoto
Secretary: Emi Hashi

Thanks for reading and we'll hope that you stayed tuned as we catch up on all the crazy adventures that have been happening so far!

Tetsuya

This is the only picture I have from Tetsuya. It was fun and everyone survived or at least I'm led to believe they survived. The above picture was taken when we were bugging Marcie about not coming after she requested that I buy ice cream. SEE YOU REQUEST, I DELIVER!

There was also home cooked food every night, mostly done by the assistant although Wayde did try out his new crockpot to make us curry. I hear that Spring Tetsuya is going to be amazing, so make plans to join ;)

Finals and End of the Year party

The school year has finally winded to a close and summer is here. Finals week was rough on the students since quite a few of them were suffering through Spring Fever. We had a few students spend the night at the BSC during Tetsuya. On Thursday, I attempted to make fried rice, I suppose it turned out ok, although Wayde Toyama would say it was "Amazing!"We also watched an anime Summer Wars and played the board game settlers.

On Saturday, at UH Graduation Heather Omori and Lynn Nakagawa graduated. Congratulations to you both and good luck in all your future endeavors.

Saturday Night, we toasted to the end of the school year and to summer vacation. We would have toasted to the graduates, but neither of them came :(was more playing of the game settlers ( which may be played a YA Retreat, but I won't spoil that surprise yet).

There were also games of Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, and umm...yeah....perhaps I won't finish.

Alex Shanklin, a representative at BDK Hawaii and student at UH Manoa will be starting at Ryukoku University in the Fall. During the Summer, he plans to travel and visit family. Since I don't know when I would see him next I took him to lunch at W&M BBQ Burger in Kaimuki. He really liked it and it was his first time there :) Best wishes to Alex at Ryukoku University and I hope I get the chance to see you again.

See you all in August or maybe sooner...:)

Random Updates of Note

Hey!

First off, I'd like to note that our hearts go out to the many people of Japan with big hugs and we're showing our support. The Hawaii Kyodan Social Concerns Committee is collecting funds which will be sent to Japan and distributed through Honzan to designated groups. The Jr. YBA is also organizing a project for the people of Japan.

In other news, the YBICSE trip is still scheduled and the participants have been receiving their notices. Some of itinerary has changed to accommodate recent events.

Tetsuya is also right around the corner for UH students. The BSC looks forward to hosting the students and all their studying needs during this week. Remember we're open 24 hours M-F. If you are coming late please remember to call so someone can let you in. Also there's a/c, food, drinks, and we've got sleeping bags too!

The dates and venue for Young Adult Retreat has changed. The new dates are August 12-15 on Oahu, but venue is still being determined at this time.

2011 Summer Session with Dr. David Matsumoto will be June 13trh-June 22. Feel free to join us virtually via Ustream. www.ustream.tv/bschawaii We're not currently broadcasting anything but feel free to take a look around the site, so you get the idea of what it's about :)

There's other updates in Hawaii Kyodan, but I'll probably post more pictures and updates soon. Hope you're doing well.

Jamie

Tetsuya in Review...

Jake doing his voiceover for a yet to be released YESS camp commercial

Josh and Jake playing with swords before filming the commercial

My $1 store Gingerbread House which only lasted a week, actually maybe less

Making the gingerbread house...

If you missed Fall Tetsuya you missed out! As you can see from the pictures there was plenty of fun or at least amusement during that week. I think everyone seemed to recover fine and will be trudging back to school in a matter of days. *sigh* I know. There are lots of things happening at the Hongwanji soon, so if you want to help out or get in contact with me. It'll be good. :)

2011 will be magic!