I went along with the first graders today on their field trip of the local area. We went to Kitaura Fishing Port, Shiroyama Park (Shiro means castle, so literally, "Castle Mountain Park", site of the ruins of the samurai castle in Nobeoka), and to a Shochu (alcohol, kinda like Vodka) plant.

Lots of pictures of happy smiling students, mostly taken for them and for my teachers, not sure how interesting it will be to anyone else, but these are my kids, bless them all :) I only have them for another week, then they move up a grade and I get a new batch. They've been awesome, and I will really miss them.

Nobetaka Field Trip 08-03-12