November 16, 2015
Mel goes potato picking!
Hello! Mel here!
On November 12 I went to do Imohori (potato digging) with my class. The school has its own plots of land in a place about an hour away called Higashi Washinomiya [This is where the athlete students have their dorms, and it is also the are where Seiritsu has its rice fields - PW] so we all travelled there by train.
First we dug up sweet potatoes using shovels, although in some places the sweet potatoes were buried quite deep in the ground so it was hard work! Next we dug up white potatoes! I haven't eaten mine yet but they looked really good and fresh! The only sad thing about the day was the bugs and spiders in the soil! I even saw some of the boys in my class playing catch with a worm!
Me and my friend Hana made a yukidaruma (snowman) out of mud which was really cute!! Imohori was really fun and it was such a nice feeling going on a school trip with the class and getting closer to everyone!
-Mel-