Nagasaki Orientation!

Okay – so before I forget – I was able to add some pictures from the Obon festival (not all of them, it still doesn’t like me and won’t cooperate)….so look at my last entry for those! And pictures from Nagasaki will follow eventually....

So I am currently at my first "business trip", and so far, things have been pretty good! We drove down to Nagasaki City this morning (took a little less than 2 hours), and got settled for a long day of more workshops and meetings. It was pretty much a review of what our job description is and them just repeating information over and over again...hey, it at least got me out of sitting at the Board of Education in Sasebo, and it's an all expenses paid!!

After our long day in the conference, Erin, Shannon, Chris, Cliff and I ventured off to Mt. Inasa which has a gondola/cable car ride up to the top with a great observatory of all of Nagasaki. It was really nice to see it at sunset.

Then afterwards we went out for dinner, (we were too late for the all-you-can-drink/eat extravaganza), and went to the Dejima Wharf for drinks....I had a fuzzy navel - can you spot my drink on the menu?!?!

Tomorrow we have a morning of the conference left, and then we are off to get our re-entry permits...which are also exciting (means I can take a trip to Thailand soon!!). Then I hope to visit the Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb museum. Then back to the lovely Sasebo for two days before I'm off to Tokyo to climb Mt. Fuji!! Very excited about that - and clearly I will have hundreds of pictures to post after that!

I know, I know...you are all wondering when I work....but not to worry! School starts on the 30th....so it'll be back to the grindstone then...unfortunately.