nagasaki blues

To those who have recently left Nagasaki or are leaving in the upcoming days:

Thank you.

When the cold is awful or the heat is unbearable, the mosquitoes are out in full force, and all the vice principals of the world have teamed up to make things a problem, you’ve kept it worth it. Homesickness ain’t a damn thing when people make you feel at home, you know?

I don’t go out of my way to spend time with people I don’t like. I just don’t waste the effort on it. I spent time with you all because you have made life here better in innumerable ways.

Please keep doing what you’re doing. Good luck.

To those of you who have just arrived in Nagasaki:

You’ve got big shoes to fill.

Don’t blow it.