Saga

Six month ago i came to Japan, i live in Kyusu island that is Saga city, actually Saga is small city, not to famous city, flat land and far from busy situation and honestly very different with my hometown situation, first am feel surpised cause of that, i thought i'll come to lively city, typically city in Japan so far i know, but, Saga still nice city. Before, i lived in Bandung, very lively and attractive city in my country-Indonesia. In whole life, this is the first experience to live far away from my family. Actually i'm an adaptable person, but when i came here - Japan, that is too hard and i should have my own way to handle that problem and i missed my hometown, family, friends and my job very badly. Day by day i try to enjoy my life here in Saga with my husband -without friends yet- and start to enjoy life here. I try to arrange my time with so much joy every day and finally i can't feel bored anymore.

One week after i came to Saga, one of visiting Professor from Thailand (my husband Prof) Prof. Bergado brought us to Nagasaki, that's so nice and this is the first city i traveled in Japan, especially in Kyusu Island. Nagasaki is more lively than Saga. Nagasaki have a hilly area and many buildings with european styles, very nice place. So far, i know this city long time before i came to Japan, i knew from historical books when i was in junior high school, there are Nagasaki it was a centre of european influence in the sixteenth century and during world war II, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the second city in the world to be subject to nuclear warfare by US, that's happened on August 9, 1945. Not only us (me, my husband and Prof. Bergado) go to Nagasaki, Bushra, Azi (Bushra's husband) and two other student from thailand but i forgot their name- also came. We have so much fun there.

[Front of Nagasaki National Peace memorial Museum]

[with my husband at peace garden, Nagasaki]

[with my friends at Glover Garden entrance, Nagasaki]

In Nagasaki, we went to Glover Garden, in it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction. Inside Glover Garden i'm did'nt feel in Japan, the scenery, buildings, garden and all espouse me just like in europe. There are romantic and exotic place..Beautiful.

[Nagasaki view's from glover garden]

[Glover Residence at Glover Garden]

I also go to other city that is Kumamoto, still in Kyusu Island with my husband of course, bushra-from bangladesh and Prof.Bergado's wife. The city's most famous landmark is Kumamoto castle, a large and, in its day, extremely well-fortified Japanese castle.

Now, i have friends from other countries and we often go around Saga or go to another city together or one of us have some invitation to lunch, dinner, playing bowling or karaoke together and the good way i can practice my english and or japanese everyday. From our friendship i can learn other languages and traditional cooking as well. Another activity to fullfill my time are join with japanese and english class at Saga University, the same campus with my husband and all at once to practicing my japanese and english with sensei (lecture).

Lately, i know many things to make me feel enjoy live in Saga i can see anything and try new things are available here. I already try many japanese foods and i can enjoy the food anytime i want. Many parks we can carry gathering or small barbecue party there, have different festival for each season (International Balloon festival every year on autumn, light fantasy, summer festival-natsu matsuri..), bazaar - i love this!(^-^) we can find new or second hand things with low price, very low price if we compare with regular price in shop we can find clothes, shoes, bags, ceramics, kitchen equipments, house hold and many things. In saga we also can safely ride the bicycle everywhere (good for healthy i think..), low cost for live if we compare with other cities in Japan. [My wish].. i can go travel around Japan, i start to enjoy and want to live longer than before i planned.

-Thanx God to always guide me and make me comfortable to live here-

Saga,Japan

-Sya