So our vacation has begun and not a minute too soon. We took the Bullet Train from Kyoto station and about six hours later we arrived at the Nagasaki trainstation. Our hotel, a very nice one at that, is right in front of the station and we really couldn't be happier. Nagasaki is actually quite an interestingly laid out city. It's built among a few small mountains (maybe they're actually big hills). Plus the people aren't so jaded to foreigners as they are in say Kyoto or Tokyo so it's cool.

Today we went an interesting museum type area that is focused on the settlement of Dejima which was a man made island used to house the only foreign trade settlement in Japan during its period of isolation. It was used by the Dutch and has quite an interesting history. They Shogunate kept the Dutch on this island and forbid them from learning any Japanese mainly because he wanted to curtail the spread of the violent virus known as Christianity. It was the only place where any Western trade, ideas and technology were allowed to enter Japan.

Anyway we're headed to the Nagasaki peace park among other places then we leave for Hiroshima on Tuesday. It's so good to have this break. The test sucked and it will be the small mistakes that bring me down. Oh well.

I'm gonna shove off so I guess this is it for now. *sniff*