First impressions of Nagasaki.

On friday 8th all the volunteers wished other well and we all set off to our destinations. Sarah, Lucy and I flew to Nagasaki from Tokyo Haneda airport which took just over 2 hours. We were met at the airport by a woman called Oka-san who is from the hospital where we are working. She took us to our apartment where we all have a room each with a kitchen, bathroom and quite a large bedroom which is good. Its quite bare so we are going to buy things to decorate it and make it more colourful. Nagasaki looks really beautiful so far and im looking forward to exploring it!
Oka-san took us out for dinner where she ordered a few dishes to nibble from. There was rice, fried chicken, chilli prawns and noodles with squid. As im not very adventurous with my food and hate fish this was a big challenge but i tried everything.

Nagasaki seems to have quite alot of mountains and we are near a river which seems to run through all of Nagasaki down to the port. Its really pretty down there and its where all the boats come to dock.

Lucy and i have done quite a bit of exploring and managed to find a swimming pool, the baseball stadium, Nagasaki Peace Memorial park and we walked for about 45 minutes to the port and found our favourite store...100yen!! It sells everything you could possibly think of for only 105 yen so we stocked up on cleaning things, bowls, chopsticks and some colourful paper to make posters for the room with Hirigana and Katakana.