Summer Holidays and Rice Paddies

I finished my last official duties at school today. I rode my bike at 8am and started ‘staff room supervision’ duties at 9am. I read the Japan Times newspaper for a while, then got bored and read some of the LOTR books from the Inter Library, then did some lesson planning and read textbooks until 12. Then I walked through the two 4-level high school buildings to ensure windows were closed and lights off in all the rooms and rode my bike home again. Now I’m on summer holidays!

Here’s some photos from my ride home from school today:

Totoro and baby totoro guarding the rice fields (ta).

Rice, up close. Maybe you can see the ears on the stalks forming

up close again.

So green… terraced rice fields backed up onto wilderness.

Rice Paddies surrounding a local temple (through the gate and up the stairs)

Rice paddies right next to the road.

In the middle of nowhere.. rice paddies everywhere.