Kapuso: My August month

Waling-waling is a famous orchid from Davao. It can live in a cool with little sunny shades forest-type environment. I was just so lucky to find a pair of it in my recent forest visit in the Philippine Eagle Farm in Malagos, Davao City. Thanks beauteous nature! I will be missing that wonderful July trip and that aesthetic place.
August as peak of the summer season here in Japan now is so humid. As I arrived back here in Nagano, I found most of the flower pots being supported my pet-bottled-water during the day in order to survive from humidity and high temperature.
Making a start of the month is important to me. Dedication for the month by a simple prayer makes my month a commitment for victory amidst struggles and limitations. And I felt so good to make my first day in a meeting with one of the city mayors in Nagano ken. It was my first direct meeting with a political figure here. Thanks to my fellow educators who bridged me on that opportunity and courtesy call.
Part of my first day of August was also my meeting of a principal of a junior high school. I felt welcome in their institution being introduced to the faculty. It was a nice meeting too.
Eventually, discovering and knowing more the big prefecture of Nagano is still a challenge. Traveling without any car but plain train and bus tickets and countful nihonggo vocabulary in a non-english speaking place is truly an alien activity. I was mistaken to drop to a different train station and have to wait for another 30 minutes the next trip; got no information on when is the train schedule going to and from; no bus trip at early 6 o' clock in the morning from my place to the train station and so on.
Nevertheless, if you have the will, you still have the way to reach it. I remembered and applied my scouting lessons in my elementary days.
But what remains unique in this prefecture is the agricultural farm in the midst of industrial areas. Apple farm, rice farm, grape vineyards, veggie farm are located between buildings and infrastructures in the cities and towns. People are religious to cultivate their lots and plant any produce that contribute to life. It is one culture common to the residents in this prefecture. Mountainous Nagano is not an excuse for the residents to drop their farming culture. Although their croppins is only once a year, they keep it advance technologically to maintain and make it easy for them in their agricultural production. But industrial firms are just adjacent too in the neighboorhood. The roots of their vision for development is intact that they keep their culture side by side towards development. This is one discovery I have in my august start of the month to the other side of Nagano ken.
Happy August!