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mountainside, Allen said.
“But it sure seems large when
you’re working it,’’ she said.
Allen and Nakama went to Ja
pan so she could meet Nakama’s
parents, and they could help har
vest the green tea crop. The two
spent about a month picking tea
leaves for his parents and three
other island families.
Nakama said he and Allen picked
about 40 sacks of tea from the four
fields, each sack weighing 20 kilo
gram s. The tea then was sold by the
sack to a nearby mill for process
ing. The two students helped
Nakama’s parents earn about $400
from the sale of the tea they picked.
She and Nakama worked in the
tea fields about five hours each
day, Allen said. They worked for
about two hours in the cool of the
morning, then took a long break for
lunch. During lunch, they took
showers to rid themselves of the
tea residue and to cool down. They
returned to the fields in the late
afternoon after the temperature
dropped.
During the harvest season, ac
tivity picked up. Nakama said his
mother worked about 19 hours a
day picking tea and processing the
leaves at the mill.
The mill is privately owned,
and the owner helped Nakama’s
mother with the processing. In re
turn, they helped the mill owner
pick his tea.
Working on a Japanese farm
differs in some ways from working
on an American farm, Allen said.
The harvest season for tea is
only about two weeks long, she
said, but there are four harvest
seasons annually.
Nakama said the tea must be
picked during that period for the
leaves to be good. If the leaves are
not harvested in time, the plants
must be cut back to ensure a good
regrowth for the next season.
The clothing worn by the Japa
nese field workers is different from
that worn by American farmhands,
Allen said. While they wear layers
of clothing to be removed during
the heat, tea pickers in Japan also
wear special protective clothing.
These clothes make quick removal
of tea residue easier, Allen said.
The workers wear boots, aprons
that resemble surgical gowns, and
long protective gloves which cover
their arms, Allen said.
“We called them ninja gloves,”
she said, “because they had elastic
at the top to hold them up and no
fingers in them.”
The women wear sunbonnets
similiar to those worn by the
American pioneer women to shade
them from the sun, and the men
wear bandannas or caps, Allen said.
The weather was hot and sunny
every day during the tea harvest,
which was why the workers took a
break during the hottest part of the
afternoon, Allen said.
“It feels like the sun over in
Japan is right over the top of you,
not off to one side like here in
Nebraska,” she said. “When you’re
out (in the fields), you cast no
shadow.”
Working in the fields was fun,
Allen said, because the workers
talked, laughed and joked while
they worked. Neighbors, workers
and field owners worked side by
side.
“The unity of the community is
so different there,” Allen said.
“They all help each other, some
times bringing food to each other
where they’re working. If they’ve
grown extra vegetables in their
gardens, they give them to the
neighbors.”
“Everybody saves money by
helping each other,” Nakama said,
“so no one has to hire extra help in
the fields.”
When it was lime to return to
the United States, Allen said the
island people were sorry to see her
leave. Even though she and Nakama
had already visited the townspeople
before getting ready to go, every- '.
one came down to the ferry dock to
see them off.
“They were crying and that
started me crying,” she said.
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Robin Trlmarchi/Daily Nebraskan
Nickette Allen and Hiroshi Nakama
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Senior Reporter
Jeff Riggert is a man on a recycling mission.
The junior biology major at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a plan to
recycle aluminum, paper, glass and plastics in
Selleck Quadrangle.
With his program already operating on one
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enough financial support to start programs on
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His first step to getting the money is to ask
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Riggert has four volunteers to help with
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Riggert said some recycling programs in
residence halls have failed, but he thinks his
program is different.
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tary problems or because students just gave up
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been thought out ahead of lime, and we coordi
nated what we’re doing with maintenance and
I know I won’t lose interest in it.”
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