An old farmer friend lady gave me a snack she made on the movie night.
I went to her house to tell her thanks. On the way, I made a little bouquet with wildflowers to give to her. This is a picture of it.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
A small gift to my friend
An old farmer friend lady gave me a snack she made on the movie night.
I went to her house to tell her thanks. On the way, I made a little bouquet with wildflowers to give to her. This is a picture of it.
Movie night
I happened to organize a movie showing on the same day as rice planting.
The movie is called "降りてゆく生き方", or Life getting down(?)
http://www.nippon-p.org/mov.html
This is a fiction story about a guy who works for a multinational company and goes to a countryside village to privatize the land, meets a local farmer who grows rice organically, a lady who makes rice wine traditionally, a social worker, etc. and ends up quitting the job and helping this yound guy who tries to save the environment, empower the local community and the kids....
The stuff of the movie were on Sado for a week and a friend of mine who has connection with them suggested doing a movie showing at my dad's cabin. It was such a short notice (=3 days before the showing) that I didn't really have time to advertise the event but more than 40 people came to watch it on the day from all over Sado :).
The whole event was very warm- family-like? Lots of people stayed after the showing to share stories and time together, old local farmers brought food for the stuff, etc. Made me very happy.
I became friends with the movie stuff-they have quit their jobs in Tokyo to help support/show this movie nationwide :0 amazing.
I am thankful for the opportunity to watch and show this movie in the cabin :)
The movie is called "降りてゆく生き方", or Life getting down(?)
http://www.nippon-p.org/mov.html
This is a fiction story about a guy who works for a multinational company and goes to a countryside village to privatize the land, meets a local farmer who grows rice organically, a lady who makes rice wine traditionally, a social worker, etc. and ends up quitting the job and helping this yound guy who tries to save the environment, empower the local community and the kids....
The stuff of the movie were on Sado for a week and a friend of mine who has connection with them suggested doing a movie showing at my dad's cabin. It was such a short notice (=3 days before the showing) that I didn't really have time to advertise the event but more than 40 people came to watch it on the day from all over Sado :).
The whole event was very warm- family-like? Lots of people stayed after the showing to share stories and time together, old local farmers brought food for the stuff, etc. Made me very happy.
I became friends with the movie stuff-they have quit their jobs in Tokyo to help support/show this movie nationwide :0 amazing.
I am thankful for the opportunity to watch and show this movie in the cabin :)
Rice planting finished
9 people volunteered to help me plant rice (to be precise, it is rice seedlings that we planted) on Saturday.
I met three of them, oh plus one goat for the first time :0
Everybody was very nice and helpful. I was so happy.
Thanks to their great help, rice planting finished in 3 hours=took less than half of the time planned.
Everyone was like "so where is the next rice paddy?" :)
The rice seedlings grew so well, that all the local farmers who saw them said "what a great seedlings! well done!" and gave me so much strength and happiness.
It's been 4 days since we planted rice.
Weed has already appeared and been threatning me and my dad so much :0
We began our fight back to it: much earlier than last year.
I made a tool with a chane and a pole to remove weed in the rice paddy.
I read about some people use one like that on the internet.
I tried weeding with it but doesn't seem so effective...what a pitty...
Pictures:
1.rice seedlings with my dad
2.3. rice planting friends
4.me weeding the rice paddy with a DIY tool
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