Day 27.

Such an onion day! Today our small group of four people went to another location, to help out with sorting onions. Even though we were working in the greenhouse (fucking hot!) it was really pleasant day... The farmer was interesting and could speak english, the other two helpers were fair age women. Those were the craziest women i’ve ever met! They spoke just japanese

and really fast, but i sure did my best in communicating with them a little bit. It is always so funny, when people don’t know that i speak japanese, and then in the middle of nowhere i start translating what other wwoofers try to say in english, or reply to them when they’re talking about something that’s regarding us. That’s always a surprise to them! During the breaks we had, farmer brought us ice cream, snacks and drinks - so nice of him, isn’t it?

We got tons of food to bring back from the farmer. Normally i was all the time working in our fields, and then you’re not getting anything to bring back, because you’re working for yourself. We do harvest things and i’m always happy to bring back as many vegetables as possible, but today our group got a big paycheck in form of food which made me so proud of ourselves. We are providing food and that’s really important to our community, since we eat what we get. Lately the food wasn’t too good and all the time the same and we kinda ran out of fresh tomatoes - they are getting ripe again now, but it was just couple of days, where we had over 20 people and all the ripe tomatoes and other vegetables were eaten. The same food is pretty good for your body, but it gets on your mood sometimes, when you don’t really know what you’re going to eat and you’re not really sure if there’s gonna be something to eat, although we never ran out of food and all the time were full - never hungry. Anyway, today we all felt a little bit relieved, having pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, we harvested quite a few eggplants and squash, had cabbages, so we had the reason to smile.

Our "paycheck"

This wwoofing place is really interesting, because we are all part of a project, which involves the whole region - we’re not really wwoofing for the host himself, we’re working in our fields and growing things for ourselves and also we’re everyday doing volunteer work for other (!) farmers, who need help but cannot pay. There are many farmers around this area, who are already old and it’s hard for them to manage all the fields, so what they would do in weeks, we can make it in a day or two, because we have lots of workers. All they give to us is bag of potatoes or rice, sometimes soup or other household tools. It is impressive when you’re thinking about the help we are actually giving to the farmers. It’s a beautiful project and i’m glad i can be a part of it...

Tomorrow three other guys are leaving us and our family is getting smaller again. So we decided to have a dress up party tonight and just go crazy, since it’s our “Friday”. It was nice, because even though we spend lots of time together, we haven’t done any parties or anything of

that kind. We had some snacks and guys had drinks. The drinkers played a sake game, so lots of them got wasted by the end of the day. It was good to ventilate our mind a little bit.

In the evening we had one new wwoofer from Germany, but we’re still a pretty small family in comparison to what we had when every room was filled with couple of wwoofers! I really like this place, even though it has lots of bad sides, but overall rating would be definitely a good one!

I decided to manage my blog in a different way. I’m not gonna merge the posts itself, i’m trying to write about each day separately. But i cannot publish the posts as often as i would like to, so it might happen, that i publish two or three posts at once. But i think it’s a better way to deal with it in this kinda situation.