Feb. 21: Nagasaki with Kwassui Homestay Families and Return to Osaka

The morning and midday of February 21 we spent with our homestay families touring around Nagasaki.  Some of us visited the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, which described the horrible effects of the atomic bomb and pleaded for future generations to prevent this from ever occurring again.  Others spent time at the Nagasaki Heritage Museum, which featured buildings and actors in period dress, as well as an exhibit on Egypt.  Still others visited Glover Gardens, an estate from the 1800's built by a wealthy Englishman.  A few went shopping ... again!

We met back up again at the Nagasaki train station around 3:45, and said a tearful goodbye to our homestay families.  Although students had only spent two days with them, they were very grateful for their homestay families' kindness and already missed them.

Back on the train to Osaka, we wrote in our journals and hung out with our friends.  Then one of the students had an idea ... wouldn't it be fun to go to Mos Burger, the best teriyaki burgers in Japan, on our last night?  The only problem was that we got back to Osaka at 10:10 PM, and the youth hostel said our curfew was 11:00 PM, only 50 minutes later.  Hurley Sensei said that the walk to Mos Burger would be 20 minutes long, and 20 minutes back, leaving us with only 10 minutes to order our burgers!

Thus began one of the fastest walks of our lives.  We made it to Mos Burger in 10 minutes, unfortunately took a long time to order, rushed back to the youth hostel, and made it by 10:58 PM.  Yatta!