grasshoppers

It's 8:00 p.m. now. Although during the day time is really hot here in Fukushima, luckily enough, we have cool air in the mornings and evenings almost every day.

Now I can hear grasshoppers are chirping outside. These sounds make me cooler, and feel Autumn is approaching. I am not sure they are grasshoppers or there is another name you can call it, but in Japanese, we call them "キリギリス科 ウマオイ". They sing like "すいーっちょん".

blueberry-picking

I wrote this writing about two weeks ago, on July 30th, and applied it to The Linguist writing assignment. Here is after the correction by my tutor.

My mom, my husband and I went to a blueberry farm this morning. The farm opens at 6:00AM every day, from early July until the middle of August. When we arrived there at 7:10AM, after a 30 minute drive, we heard cheerful voices here and there from blueberry bushes. While you are there, you can eat blueberries as much as you like, with no time limit. If you bring berries back home, they charge you 1100 yen per kilogram. Three of us picked 2.3 kg of berries in total, and paid 2500 yen, and probably we ate about the same amount while we were there.

robust cicadas

The rainy season was finally over the end of the last week, or early in this week here in Fukushima.
It's getting really hot last couple of days. Today, we probably had over 35 celcius degrees. I can here robust cicadas (Oncotympana maculaticollis) are chirping, and those sounds make me feel so hot.