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Today was a good day to end the week.

I had Minmaya again today and updated my English board and added a new section with a word search.  It was actually pretty hard since I used word searches that were made for English speaking people. The theme of the word search was some athlete, so there were a lot of familiar words and I also added some translations for others, so hopefully they will remember them!  I also added a leader board for fun.
I also brought my high school yearbook (アルバム）for the kids to look at since we were doing a lesson on clubs/sports in America.

After school, I took the train and got off a stop before my usual stop at Nakaoguni, to work in the field and garden again.
After getting off the train walking on my way to my friend's house, I saw one of the town's cars pass by me.  I wondered if it was someone I knew.  Then maybe a minute later, I see the same car come back towards me and it turns out it was one of my coworkers!  He wasn't sure it was me at first, but then he thought I was lost or something!  It was pretty funny, but I really must've looked like a lost child (迷子）or something because I didn't look like a local since I was wearing my office/work clothes, but also carrying a backpack.

In the field, we just replanted the eggplants, and then cleaned up the potato field.  There were a couple strawberries that were ready to be picked, so I was able to get those.  I also picked a lot of radish and cucumbers.  My friend also gave me pickles she made from the radishes.  I'm so lucky!

my first time picking a strawberry ever

苺　ichigo  strawberry

i also learned that i have a new enemy: 杉菜　sugina or horsetail(?) a type of weed that's super pervasive and grows very deep

きゅうり　kyuuri  cucumber

きゅうり　kyuuri  cucumber

二十日大根　hatsukadaikon   radish

picked a lot of radish today (more than this)

my vegetable drawer is all stuff from today (the tomato is from the grocery store though)

didn't get a good picture, but eggplant flowers are so cute 

replanting eggplant

なす　nasu   eggplant

next to nakaoguni station

that white speck in the back is some bird and the focus of this photo

more rice fields because why not

the fences around aomori are always painted with some sort of design.  apples are common of course. i've also seen dolphins. this is a dragonfly over hills, if you can't see it.

morning views

my english board and on the left is my high school yearbook
(english phrase of the week and word tree were under construction)

added a word search challenge to my english board
it's popular, but very difficult...