Japan has very little spicy food of its own

Yesterday my host family and I took a trip out to the countryside. Or at least I thought it was the countryside. Turns out it was still part of Isahaya City. I used to think that Isahaya was kinda small, but that's just the area I was in. It seems that cities are defined differently here in Japan than they are in America; in America a city is just a humongeous town, but in Japan they're a collection of towns, which is why Isahaya, where I am staying, has both an urban center and a whole bunch of rice paddies. Huge rice paddies.

So yes. We went to a ravine that had a bunch of small pools and waterfall-like things. There were a lot of small kids there who were playing around on the rocks and sliding down the waterfall, which seemed like the perfect natural waterslide. I wanted to try it, but I didn't have any swimming clothes and I didn't want to get wet. But that happened anyway because I slipped on a mossy rock and fell knee-deep into the water. Soaked my Air Max 90s. After that, I just walked around barefoot which was nice because the water was really refreshingly cold, and it's hotter than hell over here.

Afterwards, I got a fresh change of clothes and we went to Uniqlo. The last time I tried going into Uniqlo in Nagasaki, it had closed about a minute or two before I got there. I thought we were going to have to drive all the way into Nagasaki, but it turns out that there's a store right here in Isahaya. I got a pair of red jeans (finally) and a killer silver-foil Kieth Harring UT shirt. Also, it seems that Uniqlo has started to make Raw Denim for like fifty bucks. That's ridiculous.

For dinner, we went with my host mother's friend to a Korean restaurant. The food was great. I think we went because my host family knows I like spicy food, but we haven't been able to find much spicy food elsewhere. Everything they think is really spicy doesn't really seem like much to me. So they got a bunch of chili peppers for me to put in my food, which made it a little spicier, but really that much. However, the friend's daughter tried a bit of chili and turned red and tears started rolling down her face so uh I guess they would disagree.

Also while we were heading out, we saw some farmers spraying their rice paddies with pesticide or something. Wonder how they do it in Japan? A spray gun? Maybe some sort of pellet launcher?

No.

They use an RC helicopter.