Finishing the harvest/Polluting

Today we spent the morning finishing the harvest. I am very happy to have finished the harvest because I could not take hearing our host say the same two phrases about picking apples again. He points to an area, says "All harvest" (which means pick all the apples in that area), and "No Needle" (which means dont poke the apple on other branches when picking it). Where he got the word needle to explain not to poke the apples is a mystery to me, but I am happy not to have to hear it again.

In the afternoon, we burned a hole in the ozone layer. Our host took us to the mountain that he owns and gave us a tour of the different springs you can drink from, where wasabi grows, where mushrooms grow, etc. Then, we proceeded to take any plastic and rubber materials (including tires and basketballs) that he no longer had use for and burned them in a huge bonfire. Side note- we are supposed to be working on farms that are organic and very mindful of the environment. So that was actually pretty bad, and one of the other WWOOFers was very heated about it and may say something if we are asked to pollute again tomorrow.

On a happier note, our host took us to the hot springs which are very popular in this part of Japan. It was a very interesting experience (one in which i do not prefer to blog about. please see mimi or willys blogs for more information).

It is time to go to bed now, have to rise at 8am for another day of work that hopefully doesnt involved aiding global warming!