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.
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.
I processed four persimmons for getting rid of bitterness using strong alcohol.
I went to the town next to my village by a local train. I took this photo through train window.
A ticket for high-speed railways “Shin-kansen” is expensive. Plus, Jo’etsu shinkansen runs through so many tunnels, you cannot enjoy the view from train window in mountainous area. So, I didn’t use a high-speed railway, but got on a local trains to go to Kanto Region on Saturday.
This is the town where LQ laoshi was born fifty-some years ago.
Needed to transfer to another train at Nagaoka.
View from the train window, it’s under dark clouds.
It’s still under dark clouds, because the train was still in Niigata Prefecture.
The train from Nagaoka brought me to “Minakami” in Gumma Prefecture.
Station Building of Minakami
The sky was bule in Gumma, it’s different from Niigata.
On the way back, the high-speed train “Shin-kansen” was so crowded with passengers. I had to be standing at the end section of a train car until the trains got to Takasaki where is a kind of mid-point between Tokyo and Niigata.
When the trains departed Takasaki, I got a non-reserved seat.
Finally I got to my hometown in Niigata Plain. Now I’m going to upload this post from the living room of my house.
Everything is different from my hometown in rural area of Niigata.
Super market in my village cannot serve Sushi of this quality. Now, I am going to eat this sushi 🤤.
I guess the following photos were taken in Enoshima in 2011.
The weather was not so good in that day.
I am not sure these photographs are useful to someone.
Today, the weather was fine, and the sky was clear.
I could take a photo of Iide Mountains with some snow on top of it.
By the way, I went to a supermarket and bought foods a little.
Goldenrod
Japanese pampas grass
Ducks on the water
A Shrine in a Village
Persimmons on a tree
When I was a kid a half century ago, this was a timber bridge. Its width was so narrow that only a small vehicle could cross.
I could see snow on Mountain Iide(飯豊山地) with my eyes, but it was not clear on a photo. I have processed the above photo much.
I need to write some e-mails tonight. It is important for me to communicate one by one with my ex-students.
