Japanese August 6, 2003: The last day
	Today is the last day. Kids brought their belongings to the adult's room.
Early in the morning, at 6:30, all the attendants this time did gymnastics under the leading by a teacher who had learned in Denmark. It is very refreshing to breath deeply in the cool morning.
	After the gymnastics, we visited the farm to pick the egg plants. Kids asked eagerly what is this and that to the high school students and adults. They were interested in many kinds of vegetables.
After the breakfast, they dug the charcoal from the oven. Will the bamboo turned to charcoal after one day in the oven?
	The oven was newly constructed for this time experience school and they were worrying about the condition of the oven, the high school students and teachers commented.
The kids first remove clay from the oven door using bamboo scoops. The high school students removed heavy stone lid in the end.
	Oh my God! Cried a teacher. The bamboo remains raw in the oven with slight soot on the surface.
Yes, it is still bamboo, unfortunately.
	Kids watch the poor "product" sadly. I got one of them for souvenir.
Just in case of such accident, the high school students and teachers were ready to produce bamboo charcoal using larger oven They opened it. Beautiful bamboo charcoal appeared at last. The students entered the oven and carried out the product with their faces and hands blackened with soot.
	Kids take them for souvenir. A female high school student explains the schedule from now. After listening to it, all the people cleaned up the rooms in which they stayed for a few days.
We-were-there-picture.
We went back to the room and listened to the teacher who joined from Jiyu Gakuen in Tokyo. Then we read the writings of the Founder Motoko Hani. The teacher7s talk attracted enthusiastic attention of the kids who concentrated for as long as one and a half hours.
	The kids will "see carefully", "listen eagerly", and "do earnestly" after they get back home. The closing ceremony has come at last. High school students, teachers from school, and Mr. Ubukata of the farm made short speech respectively.
"Japan is facing a hard time. It is very important to think a great deal of a local life like Nasu Farm. Please come and join us again", he concluded.
	A microbus picks up the kids and belongings. Good bye!
After cleaning up the kitchen, we reviewed this time schooling. As I had to catch a flight to Oita, I said good bye one step ahead. I was very sorry for other members who would continue to cleaning.
	I got a pack of Manju(a bun with a bean-jam filling) at Nasu Shiobara station. The design was of Royal Chrysanthemum, probably because the Royal Family has its special second home here in Nasu highland. A flight to home. I was very tired but it was very fruitful this time study class.
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