Day 7.. Kurume fruit plucking activity... Regina

We woke up to a beautiful Sunday morning, looking forward to the activities planned for us today. We had a simple breakfast, consisting of miso soup, a bowl of rice, vegetable salad and toast. It was very simple yet delicious. We then loaded our luggage into the bus and went on our way to the persimmon plucking venue, Kurume.

It was a very long journey and most of us fell asleep on the bus. Mr Thomas told us many facts about the persimmons and we were very interested to know about it. Singapore does not have a Kurume and we find is very exciting to be plucking fresh persimmons from the trees.

Finally, we were woken up and alighted the bus. The Kurume was very beautiful with tress everywhere and persimmons hanging from the branches. We were allowed to pluck one persimmon for free. If we want more, we have to buy it from the Kurume. The persimmons were very incredibly sweet and it was very enjoyable to be surrounded with persimmon trees and all our friends.

Aref plucking from a ladder...



















Finally we left the Kurume bringing definitely not more than one free persimmon, but invaluable experience of plucking fresh persimmons. Tomorrow we will be spending our last day in Japan and I find it very unbearable to leave Kyushu behind, as we experienced many things we do not in Singapore.

Finally ending this post with, O ya su mi na sai! (goodnight)

posted by Regina