Oh not just sprint away…but sprint away screaming.
Like literally running full speed down the greenway screaming.
Story time!
So in Japanese schools, they are big on embedding experiential learning opportunities into their curriculum. So stuff like community field trips and volunteer activities are weekly. We’d take our students to the fields in the local community to help farmers plant rice.
Welp if you know anything about growing rice, you gotta flood the fields.
So they had these long rubber boots for us to wear and some rice seed. Already my anxiety is on 10 b/c bugs in Japan were ridiculous. But I didn’t wanna make a scene so I just went along and participated.
I was good for a few minutes. But then I looked down.
shyt was everywhere in that damn rice paddy.


Then something that looked like a cross between a hornet, a grasshopper and a demon whizzed by me.

By now my anxiety had been steadily mounting and I’m just fukking done.

Some type of big ass bug buzzed by me and I dropped my lil basket and ran SCREAMING THROUGH THE FIELDS all the way back to the buses.



The farmers are crying laughing
I ain’t eeen care. I honestly don’t know how they do it b/c some were barefoot! Crazy thing is my family is from the country. I know about farming but even when I was little I always had huge bug phobias. So many stories.
Also they follow me. It’s like they can sense my fear.
But yeah…NOPE. Just say no to bugs.