It was a beautiful weekend in Nagasaki so we decided to make the most of it and on saturday we walked down to the harbour! On the way we found a lovely little shrine a little up the mountain and right next to it we found the cable car station for going up to Mt Inasa. We decided we would still continue down to the harbour and go to the shopping mall and we would head up the mountain for sunset. Mt Inasa is in the top three night views in the whole of Japan and it is just over 1,000 ft high. The cable car up took around five minutes and as we crawled up we would gradually see more and more of Nagasaki. I knew Nagasaki was big, but no where near as big as it actually is. When you get to the top all you can see for miles is buildings and mountains, its hard to tell where it starts and begins. It is really peaceful at the top of the mountain as they have music playing and there is an observation deck which you can see the whole of Nagasaki from. We waited until the sunset so that we could view Nagasaki at night with all the twinkling lights. One they way back home we decided to get a snack and as i have become addicted to donuts since arriving here, i decided i would try be healthy but ended up buying some greasy southern fried chicken pieces from 7/11 where Lucy discovered a new love for corn dogs. We are so unhealthy here!! 
On Sunday we had been invited to a Sakura viewing festival at Kazagashira Park about 20 minutes by bus from central Nagasaki. We had been invited by a woman who works with the volunteers at the hospital as she is part of the YMCA here and other foreigners who live in Nagasaki meet here. The park was so beautiful as it was covered in sakura which unfortunately are starting to dissapear already. Here we met the rest of the people who would be joing and chose a spot for our picnic. As the food was provided for us i was quite scared as i was presented with a set lunch packed with rice wrapped in seawead with salmon inside, a bright red sausage looking thing and a few other strange objects. I managed to eat most of it apart from the seaweed and rice which smells to much like the ocean for my liking.
There was people from Indonesia, South Korea and China at our picnic and most could speak English as well as Japanese. They had mainly moved here to come to the university to gain better degrees. At the festival we were able to see young girls dressed in kimono's who performed traditional Japanese dancing and afterwards they came to speak to us and we were able to get our picture with them. We were also served proper Japanese green tea by women dressed in Kimono's at a tea ceremony style thing in the park, unfortunately i really do not like green tea which isnt good as they drink so much of it here! We were able to wander about the park and enjoy the view before we set off for dinner at Ezoe San's house. Once we arrived she performed the tea ceremony for us which is done with such precision and care, everything must be done properly. Afterwards she cooked us a dinner of various things which included, rice, noodles, various salads and what i think was a large round of gammon wrapped in bacon. She is really lovely and trys her very hardest to speak English, on wednesday Lucy and i are going to Tai-chi class with her which iam looking forward to. Again the majority of my pictures are on my facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/#!/chloe.aaa.
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