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brooks461  > Japan: November 2006 > My Solo Visit to Nagasaki
Jon sent me off one day to find my way on the train to Nagasaki, where I had lots of help from the locals. I guess I wasn't blending in very well. I seemed to be the only non-Japanese in the whole city that day, so many people were willing to help.
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brooks461 > Jon planned my solo trip to Nagasaki one day. Terrifying, because I was deaf and dumb and couldn't read Japanese in an area not used to foreigners.  But I coped.  Jon lives in Ushizu.  Ushizu station is just past Hizen Yamaguchi on the way  home.  I changed trains in Hizen Yamaguchi.  If I waited until I got to Kubota, it would be too late!  Thank goodness for the Romaji letters or I would never have found my way.
brooks461 > Ushizu Station-- a photo so I remembered where to get off later that day.
brooks461 > A view into a dale from the train to Nagasaki.  Canals in every town, everywhere.  I think they're there to flood the rice fields in June.
brooks461 > I don't know what's growing -- but no land is wasted.
brooks461 > The clock stopped at 11:02 on August 9th, 1945.  The bomb.  This was in the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki.
brooks461 > More and more paper cranes -- for peace -- from schools around the world. At the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.
brooks461 > These kids approached me: they wanted their picture with me.  Then we went together to Grover (or was it Glover?) Garden, up that hill in the background.  They were on a five-day field trip with their Presbyterian high school in Tokyo.  They enjoyed practicing their English with me, and helped me find my way around.  We took an inclined elevator up that hill.
brooks461 > The high school kids from Tokyo, at the top of the elevator.
brooks461 > Nagasaki, from Glover Gardens.  A nice city.
Jon planned my solo trip to Nagasaki one day. Terrifying, because I was deaf and dumb and couldn't read Japanese in an area not used to foreigners. But I coped. Jon lives in Ushizu. Ushizu station is just past Hizen Yamaguchi on the way home. I changed trains in Hizen Yamaguchi. If I waited until I got to Kubota, it would be too late! Thank goodness for the Romaji letters or I would never have found my way.
 > Jon planned my solo trip to Nagasaki one day. Terrifying, because I was deaf and dumb and couldn't read Japanese in an area not used to foreigners.  But I coped.  Jon lives in Ushizu.  Ushizu station is just past Hizen Yamaguchi on the way  home.  I changed trains in Hizen Yamaguchi.  If I waited until I got to Kubota, it would be too late!  Thank goodness for the Romaji letters or I would never have found my way.
Jon planned my solo trip to Nagasaki one day. Terrifying, because I was deaf and dumb and couldn't read Japanese in an area not used to foreigners. But I coped. Jon lives in Ushizu. Ushizu station is just past Hizen Yamaguchi on the way home. I changed trains in Hizen Yamaguchi. If I waited until I got to Kubota, it would be too late! Thank goodness for the Romaji letters or I would never have found my way.
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