Come Away with Me

Arriving at the Gotos

The Nagasaki JETs arrived at Nagasaki airport at around noon time and my supervisor was waiting right at the arrival hall for me. As we had a couple of hours to kill before boarding the jetfoils to Kamigoto we had lunch and walked around a shopping arcade a little.

This is a photo of my jetfoil ticket and boarding pass. Do you see the price for a one way ticket? Yes, it's 6,100 yen for a one way!(i think it's about 10500yen for round trip)Thank goodness any travel that is work related will be paid for but still that is not much of a consolation when you think of the times when you have to make trips out to the city for personal reason. Jetfoil is actually what we call speedboats back home and it takes a shorter time to get to Nagasaki city from the island, around 1hr 40min. There is actually a cheaper way to commute to the city and that is by big car-carrying ferry. The journey will take nearly 3 hours but the price is cheaper by more than half! (4700yen for round trip). If i'm not in a hurry, you can be sure i'll be taking the ferry a lot more than the speedboat.

We arrived at around 630pm and i was surprised and glad to find 2 other 2nd year ALTs on Kamigoto waiting for me at the terminal. Turned out that my supervisor is a busy man and had to rush off for a meeting so he got the 2 girls to take me out for dinner on my first night on the island.

Melissa is Chinese American from Virginia and Victoria is from Wales. They've both been on the island for a year now and liked it enough to continue on for a second year. I sort of knew them a month before i came to Japan. It was quite amusing thinking back now. I remember feeling rather apprehensive and googling online for whatever information i can find on this ruralish teeny weeny small town when i happened to chance upon Vicky's blog. Got in contact with her and boy they had been great help even before i got to Japan.

posted by テレサ @ 11:53 PM