Today I took the train to Fukuoka prefecture after going for automatic sushi (where the tables line a long conveyor belt carrying various types of sushi). It's quite inexpensive, kind of like the diner of sushi.

But here I am, and so far it seems to be the farm I would picture when I thought about WWOOF in the first place. It's quite in the country (25 minutes from the train station by car) and lovely surroundings. The family owns a general/produce store, it appears, and has at least a few greenhouses to supply it.

There's not much English to go around in this family, and that's exactly what I need right now. I've been surrounded by people who speak English and had begun to feel I could have been in any developed country, even back home, and would have been having much the same experience. Not so here.

There's even a baby! I've never been around babies that much. He's 100 days old today and had his first real food. A grain of rice or two, but still, hooray!

They seem quite used to WWOOFers, though I think they took a break for the winter, as I'm the only one at the moment. There's a schedule posted in Japanese and English:

7:30 Breakfast

8:00 Work starts

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Work resumes

17:30 Finish --> Bath

19:00 Dinner

22:00 Go to room

8.5 hours a day of work! More than WWOOF seems to recommend but it should still be good.

¶ 4:23 AM