Our Japanese Wwoof hosts/wwoofers

Can't believe that we're already 3 days down in our ten day stay here. Seems that theres just so much to do! Today we did some hard work man. Its just moving wood chips from one place to another and spreading it around this area where blueberries and rasperry bushes were. It took of us and the whole day and we're still not done. My goodness... But we had lots of fun, and our 3 japanese hosts/wwoofers have been soo soo nice to us. I can imagine how annoying it is to people this and that, and then we leave the next week. I think its time to describe our 3 hosts.

First is Haru-chan who is the only permenant paid staff here at fuji eco park. She's pretty good in English and has travelled pretty much most of asia. She was studying asia pacific studies at uni when she took a break to wwoof... then fell in love with this place, quit uni and is now a permanent staff here. Extremely helping, patient and not at all bossy, Haru-chan is a gem to have.

Non-chan is a wwoofer here for about one month now, and she is another super lovely gal. She was a nurse, then when she had some health troubles, she went to study organic vegetarian cooking and has cooked many delicious healthy dishes for us so far! She carries a notebook around and writes down all the english words she comes across while speaking with us and studies them in her free time. Such diligence and personal upkeep is so admirable.

Aki-chan (akira) is our energetic, upbeat boy whose also been here a month and is totally into the work while having fun! He's also really keen to learn and practice english and is travelling to australia in autumn to help an australian guy build his permaculture self sustainable housing!

ALl 3 are not older than 26 years old, yet there's almost an air of wisdom about them. They totally love the place, the work, they take care of it, and they take care of themselves. They have dreams to travel and experience life, yet they also know how lucky they are. I am so happy to have met such humble, inspiring people in a great but humble nation.