I’m going to write about my home town. I was born and
raised in Mifune town, Kumamoto which is surrounded by nature. The town has
been famous for its dinosaurs. A few decades ago, the first fossil of a tooth
of a dinosaur was excavated, and this started a series of large-scale
excavations that went on one after another. After that, a number of dinosaur
fossils were found in many places around the town. Due to the results of the
excavation, a museum for displaying the fossils was opened, and recently, about
a month ago, the big new museum opened to replace the old one, and it was
widely reported by TV, newspaper, and some magazines. It is very close to my
house, but I still haven’t visited there, so if I have time, I will go to the
museum.
During the summer, I can see beautiful green forests and
rice paddies from my house. There is also a river that is a short walk from my
house. I used to play in the water with my friends at the river when I was in
an elementary school student and when I got into junior high school, my parents
bought me a bicycle, and my activity range expanded. As a result, I was able to
go to my friend’s houses which were located in remote areas from the center of
the town. Most of their houses were at the foot of the mountain, or in a forest.
Every weekend without club activity, I usually went with my friends to their
houses. At that time, there were some TV game, such as Nintendo 64 or Play
Station 1, and also “Pokemon” was really popular. Many
classmates were involved in that TV game, but we were not only interested in
them.
When we reached our friend’s house, first, we started to
play survival games in the forest at the back of the house. There was an area
of bamboo groves in the mountain, and we engaged in gun battles there covered
with mud. After we finished the game, we went to a mountain stream near my
friend’s house. That mountain stream was clear, transparent, and beautiful. We
heard a joyful bird’s song, and also we were able to see rare fishes, for
example, mountain trout and masu trout. We usually went fishing there in order
to catch sweetfish. When we had tired of fishing, we often dove into the water,
and caught fish or crabs by spearing them with a portable small harpoon.
After that, we broke up for the evening and brought some
fishes back home respectively. I went on to a high school which was in Kumamoto
city, I stopped going to my friend’s houses for my club activity and high
school life. However, I kept in touch with my childhood friend who lives in the
farthest area from the center of Mifune town. In the winter season, if the road
which leads to my friend’s house had not frozen, I went there in order to see
raccoon dogs and deer. The area where he lives is true countryside. There is no
convenience store, and or even a supermarket, but there is only a mailbox near
his home.
When I visited his home, I usually stayed the night at there.
After the sun went down, we put dog food by the veranda-like porch, and around
midnight, we were able to see the raccoon dogs through the window in dim light.
Sometimes I saw a beautiful snowy landscape. Everything was covered with snow
as far as the eye could see. At that time, we had a snowball fight, and built a
lot of snowmen. And now, the town has been changing rapidly in the last couple
of years. There were so many rice paddies surrounding my house. In summer
season, in the daytime, when I went there, I can see a beautiful green rice
field. And in the evening when the moon is up, I was also able to see the image
of the moon filling a rice paddy with water, and also heard a chorus of
peepers. In the early autumn, I was able to see the glowing ears of rice.
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