My name is Hiroki Nomura. I teach at Osagami Junior High School, which is a city school in Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan. In Saitama, autumn normally begins around this time of year.
Autumn means the rice harvest has ended.
The kids at our school are taking part in environmental activities, such as cutting rice stalks after the rice has been harvested and collecting fallen leaves to make fertilizer. At our school, two students took part in the NOx Project.