Hiromi Usagi!

OMG I am exhausted and took a long nap so that my dad thought I got sick, haha. I helped my parents harvesting rice yesterday and today. I love their rice. It tastes great and doesn’t make me want to eat not so good rice any more. In fact, I can’t bear eating a bowl of rice at some restaurant, haha. I know I am spoiled or picky about food. Raising rice and vegetables seem a long process, but I felt good about at least using my own hands to gather my own food. I am sure that my parents enjoy doing this after their retirement. They were told that their rice and Daikon raddish from last year were so good that the same people to whom my parents gave those want their rice and raddish again. Actually, one of them asked my parents to make 100 daikon raddish for them. Wow…right? I am so not an outdoor person and was thinking why I was doing this yesterday while working on the rice field, but today after the long nap (hahaha) I am feeling very good.

We finished harvesting two rice fields by noon and had a nice lunch with a few glasses of alcohol. I should not have had a glass of Chu-hai (japanese vodka/shochu with a lemon juice), because I have been having very sinusy allergic reaction lately and alcohol is not good for that. Anyhow, it helped me sleep really deeply. I like how my dad uses alcohol as a reward or excuse of hardwork.

I am going to tokyo next week. I started looking for a job. I should find a place to live. It would be so much fun. If I need to relax, I can always come back here at my parents. It is not too far from tokyo and I can do one-day trip easily. I feel very secured when I think about my parents being physically close to me, but at the same time I know I want to move on. ohh I miss living in Chicago so much…please come visit me in tokyo!! guys!

sweet dreams!