Woolly caterpillar
He was also taking lunch beside us. The green looks soft and yammy. They are just living their life so simply, They just live right now. That's the big difference from me. I tends to live and be trapped by past and future. I wana live like them.

We are making our small farm, waking up at 6am. Still preparing for soils by cultivating. It's a hard job for me. Fuuu. Today we just made small spaces for basil and for other herbs in the near future. The one at the back side is the one made by the girl in another photo, my teacher of many things. The one in front is mine. The difference is so clear. hehe. I put some compost that I left behind when I left to the Philippines. It has been composted for 2 years without being opened by anyone. So this is a kind of experiment if the compost still can work or not.

Today the weather was sooo nice. So we took lunch outside.
Food life here is sooo rich. Very safe orgnic veges are reachable always.
It's so fresh and tasty. The real raste of veges. Tastes soo rich and sweet.
I am cooking simple food everyday. Then I am getting thinner and thinner. Now all the jeans are loose. I wana get fat now. May be I should stay in the Philippines for a while. :-)
The girl beside me is my teacher of farming, layouting, editing and driving.

This is what you are interested in, my dear AsiaDHRRA peole. :-)
You might say, everything in Japan must be high tech.
No, it's not here.
It's just a hole inside.
Smelly. :-(

This is my house. You wana see inside? No, it's too messy, may be in a few momnth :-)  

Carrry party No,2 

We had a Japanese carry party at Jet's house 

Having dinner with AsiaDHRRA people,
These are the Photos when I went back to the Philippines last April,Oh, I miss them....My most comfortable time and space and people who give me all these.I want to get "anywhere door" that can bring me to anywhere, if I think of the place in front of the door and when I open the door, there it is already the place!!!!!!Could someone give me that door?????

My new life is started!

After living in the Philippines for 1 and half year working in a network NGO AsiaDHRRA, http://asiadhrra.org/ I came back to Japan at last!
And now I started my new life in Japan in new place.
I moved into this place just a few days ago to start my new job.
I started to work in Ainou-kai which is a japanese NGO promoting organic agriculture.
http://www.ainou.or.jp/
(Sorry only Japanese page is available)
I was assigned as a editor and layoutor of their monthly issued magazine "AINO".
("Ai" means Love and "No" means Agriculture)

What I realized after staying here for a few days is that skill and knowledge as editor and layoutor is not a big matter for working here.
The most imprtant thing to work here is to understand their spirit and believe in and love it from the bottom of my heart.
Either when I write articles, build a plan for contents or layout each article, everything have to be the expression of Ainou-spirit.
And to do that, I need to deeply unserstand it and love it.
I am a parson tend to see things from a distance and always tends to be critical of it.
I am not good at believing in something without having any doubt.
(Even to myself. This is my biggest challenge in my life so far to change.)
The question now is if I can do that or not.

As my friend said, things are hard at the beginning.
This time I am having more difficulty to adjust than the time I started my new life in the Philippines.

I am now really missing my life in the Philippines, my house, my friends, warm and happy people and hot weather there.

It will take time to build my life here, but I am gonna do that little by little,
As a starter, now I am trying to make my house very comfortable one.
May be after sometime, I can open my small caffeteria there named "forest caffe" with good coffe and tea and music.
It's opened only when I am there at home.
On the wall there are nice pictures or my favorite drawings and cloths are hang.
(Now on the wall so many spider webs are, hehe, I am living with so many big to small spiders. :-)
I just open the place to everyone who drop by and have nice time together.

In one year, I am sure this place will be a place that I will miss when I have to leave here as the Philippines became so.