Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning
I am a native Japanese speaker who used to teach Japanese in a university somewhere on this planet. Currently I don't work but stayed in my house in Northern part of JAPAN. I hope that you could enjoy reading my posts and know what life in Japan is like.
I harvested three Daikon(s) from my field today. I wanted to make “Dried Daikon”so that I can keep Daikon longer.
Since I didn’t know how to tie them to hang, it was difficult for me to do this. But somehow, I made it.
There are many boards to give people a caution, warning, advice, suggestion or whatever.
Droppings of a dog tells you the level of ethics of dog’s master.
To jogging runners: This trail is not only for runners; Construction section of Chuo-ward office of the city hall
Be careful to a Boar
Let us stop throwing Tabacco around this area for fire prevention.
The Bus stop to go to the downtown area
Read leaves and Shinano River
The view on the Bandai Bridge towards Bandai
The view on the Bandai Bridge to West; you can see Yahiko Mountain far beyond
The view of the Bandai Bridge towards Furumachi
And I ate sushi for my lunch that was 1,958JPY.
Yesterday, I went to the town of Niigata. After I came home, I hang 14 persimmons to dry them. I can keep them longer by drying them.
I made my mother get on the second car of Jo’etsu Shinkansen. Today she has gone to my sister’s house in Kanto Region near Tokyo. Unless I make sure that she is on board of shinkansen (High-speed railway), she might come back to my house after window shopping in Niigata.
I left the platform of Shinkansen before the train departed, I headed to the Number 9 bus stop which is bound for Hamauracho.
There is sand hill between the town and the sea shore. I walked up a slope and stairway a little bit, went down from the low ridge, and then reached the Sekiya-hama (Sekiya Beach).
When I was a kid, my father took me to this beach in summer. There was a beach house that partnered with the teachers’ association. My father was a teacher, so we always went to that beach house. If my memory is correct, that was the 2nd from the corner to the left. In the photo, it is “こがねや”. Probably its management, or even the name might have changed.
to be cont’d
These days, the number of page view of this blog is going down. I think it’s because I have been writing a post that is not so interesting. As for today, the weather was not so good, sometimes rainy, so I have been inside all day. That means I couldn’t take any interesting photos outside.
But I guess tomorrow will be a different one, because my mother is going to my sister’s home which is located in near Tokyo. Since my mother cannot get on a train of the high-speed railway “Shinkansen” herself, I will take her to the platform of the JR Niigata station tomorrow morning. Now I am thinking about doing something in Niigata after I send off my mother to Tokyo region. I will take some digital photos in Niigata, and may be able to upload them here, probably.
I hope that tomorrow would be “a respite” for me.
The following photos were taken on November 10, 2023.
A bird must have eaten part of Persimmon.
I processed five persimmons today. They are the last ones.
There are still other twenty persimmons of other kinds. They are small and have seeds inside. Rather than getting rid of bitterness by alcohol, I am thinking about making them “dried persimmons”.
This morning, I took my mother to a big hospital in order to hear the result of the echo test of her heart. She took the test last Thursday. We arrived at the hospital a little before 9 a.m. and had waited until 10:30. Since the doctor took thirty minutes for one patient last time, I had thought that the whole of morning hours would be gone today. But my mother’s turn came earlier than I expected. Anyway, what the doctor said was that her heart didn’t have any problem like heart valve disease. No need for medicine, no need for periodically seeing the doctor. It relieved me a lot.
After that, I paid money for her because at that time my mother went to the in-hospital shop to buy some bread. To my surprise, it costed only 160 JPY (approx. 1USD). The lower the charge is, the better for elderly people. But I worried that Japan’s medical system would collapse in the near future when I got older.
We got on a free bus at 10:45, and got off it in front of a railway station. There, I saw a driving wheel of steam locomotive (as in the photo). The board says that this wheel had run Two million kilometers (1,245,750mi) since 1923 until 1974.
A farmer does this thing one hundred, two hundred, or more. But I am not a farmer. And my persimmon trees are still young and small. They are not so productive yet. Today, I set six persimmons hung under the roof. Two behind are not today’s. Drying is another way to remove bitterness of persimmons. But weather in Niigata tends to be wet in this season, I am worrying about mold on the surface of them.
Cherry trees have got their leaves red.
The mountain behind is actually beyond the sea. It is Ko-sado Mountain Ridge of Sadogashima (Sado Island)
The mountain has already appeared on my blog so often; Kitamata-dake of Iide Mountain
This type of Local train is used to connect to Fukushima Prefecture on the east side of Niigata Prefecture.
Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning 