End of our first week:)

Tomorrow is my first day at the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital where i will be working Monday through to Friday. Iam mostly working in the wards bu once or twice a week i shall be watching surgery and also working in the nursery which i am really looking forward to. Everyone at the hospital seems really lovely although not many of the nurses can speak English. I can see myself getting lost in the hospital as it seems really big and the signs are obviously written in Japanese.
We are going to start attending Japanese classes a local hall only 10 minutes down the road from our apartment but it doesnt start until May so we are just going to helpe ach other out until then. Im slowly picking up Hirigana and Katakana but there is alot of Kanji in Japanese writing and its really hard to learn. Hirigana and Katakana are just syllables so my name translates as:
クロエ  アトキンソン which sounds like ku-ro-ii  a-to-ki-n-so-n.
The one thing that is a pain is that you must change into slippers whenever your inside a home, some restuarants also ask you to take your shoes off. I suppose its hygenic as the Japanese have slippers for wearing around the house, slippers for the bathroom and then also their outdoor shoes.
I am really craving some macaroni cheese mmmm... but i suppose noodles will have to do!! Im really loving Nagasaki so far as it is so peaceful and chilled out and there is still plenty for us to do. Lucy and i walked down to the harbour and it was really lovely so i think it will be even more beautiful in summer. There are lots of cartoon style shops here and we found a shop which sold clothes, socks and prams for dogs.. crazy!! We seem to keep finding ourselves in entertainment arcades trying to win things which are completely impossible and wasting our money!!