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Hello, nice to meet you too. My name is Yoshie Hayashi.

It is the rainy season in Japan so it is raining today. I had an appointment with the dentist this morning. Usually, I ride a bicycle to get there on a fine day but I drove a car today. After that I went to the bank, went to the library to return some books, also I went shopping and got some other errands done while I was in the car.

In my region, it usually starts in June. The rain front piles up above Japanese islands so the rainy season continues for one month or one month and a half. However we haven't had enough rain so far because of the recent unusual dry weather. Generally, people feel that it is comfortable to live but farmers must be worried about the shortage of rain.

The area where I live isn't a farming area. It is a kind of commercial and residential area. But in some small-scale farming exists in my city. So I see paddy fields and dry fields outside of town. The time of planting rice is very different from the region because Japanese islands are spread from North to South. In my region, it's done in the beginning of May.

The Northern area in Japan is in the subarctic zone and the Southern area is in the subtropical zone. So it might be a bit hard to crop in the Northern area in winter. People look like planting variety of vegetables and fruit to fit the climate. People who has a yard in my town regularly plants flowers and trees.