In this short article, I will try to recount the very beginning of my existence and how I emerged to become a member of KCIC.

There is no doubt it was God who brought me to become part of our growing community, the KCIC. I've been working here in Japan for 3 years then when I started to join KCIC. In that span of 3 years, there were 3 instances that I moved from one apartment to another. In my first year, I used to live in Takadanobaba, Tokyo. My apartment was just walking distance from our office and it was just approximately 5 minutes by bicycle. Shinjuku is not far away from Takadanobaba and I used to stroll around Shinjuku almost every weekend when I had the time. Going to Yotsuya to attend mass was also possible because Yotsuya is not far from Shinjuku and I could go there with my bicycle. Since then I'd been attending mass at Yotsuya.

After a year, my company decided to let me experience life away from Tokyo for reasons that it would be more economical although the travel time would not be as comfortable as living in Tokyo. I didn't had a choice anyway so my second year in Japan was spent living in Iriso, Sayama-shi. Iriso is almost an hour away from my working place in Tokyo. I was already accustomed to attend mass in Yotsuya that I still continued to attend mass there. I was aware that there was a Catholic Church in Kawagoe but still I decided to attend mass at Yotsuya.

A year passed and that time our company had expanded its work force that a significant number of fresh graduates were hired. From these newly hired employees, most of them were not originally from Tokyo and that made our company decided to rent a dormitory enough to accomodate everyone who wished to avail the shelter the company was providing. Thinking it would be good for me to join the other Japanese in the dormitory for reasons that I could have enough time to mingle with them and in the process would improve my Japanese skills, I was made to move again for the third time.