Japan is often known as the "land of the rising sun", however during this season I always think it could be named the "land of the noisy frogs". There are frogs everywhere and as anyone who has ever been here knows - they are very noisy. They jump off the washing line into your washing basket, they mysteriously appear out of the dirt while you are digging, they even hop inside every now and then to check out your house. Until today I thought that there were frogs all over Japan and that Japanese people found them a bit boring... great piece of stereotyping on my behalf! The biggest entertainment for today was a trip to the waterfall and the 4 girls not just looking at a real frog for the first time, but holding onto a frog for the first time in their lives! They spent almost an hour playing around in the river catching tiny crabs and screeching anytime they saw a spider's web or any other kind of bug. A nice cool place to be after another hot day!
I never knew how much frogs could be either - until I went to visit Sara in Niigata!! I got up and personal with him though... he ended up on my face, lol!!
ReplyDeleteoh man, frogs here sure are noisy!! kinda cute, though i don't really like their coldness....
ReplyDeleteHi, how's it going? Are you busy next weekend? I'm having a little party for Gion on Sunday, pretty much all day, so if you are not run off your feet chasing junior high schoolers or otherwise engaged, please come along! Email me at takajolily (at) yahoo.com, I haven't got your email on this computer.
ReplyDeleteNice that all it takes to entertain some of the groups is to put them in a field with frogs and spiders.
ReplyDeleteGood luck for the weekend program.
In this season, I am hearing noisy frogs in my area, especially in midnight. But, I do not feel it is "noisy". I have heard that Japanese people use different part of their brain from foreigners when they hear sound of small animals like cricket, cicada. Is it right?
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