I went to Nagasaki to see my parents from September 1 to 8. I should go there on the Bon and the New Year, but recently I go there when the plane is cheaper. This time was hard, because I felt sick on my stomach late August and had a pain in my stomach, so I couldn't eat anything for a while. I felt better by taking some medicine, but I felt sick again ... so I decided to examine my stomach. I took a test by an endoscope for the first time on the day before I left for Nagasaki. I was so worried about it, but one of my co-workers recommend a good hospital near my office. I could take a test without a pain. The result is not so serious. It was not no problem, though.

I didn't feel well in the first 2 days after arriving in Nagasaki. I felt better after that, but I seem to be a bit sick mentally. This time I went to see my father in a hospital and visited my family's grave as usual. The country side is slow and easy, so I can be relaxed. My mother looks older everytime I see her. I stayed at my aunt's house, because it was closer to the hospital where my father was. There is a street car around my aunt's house from the Nagasaki station, and there is the Matsuyama station where was the center area of the atomic bomb dropped. I got off the train at the Urakami station, and I found the memorial monument of the victims by the atomic bomb. When the atomic bomb was dropping in Nagasaki, my parents were not in Nagasaki city, so they were not bombed. But my grandfather was. He is already dead, but he attended at the ceremony for the victims by the atomic bomb every year. I watched this ceremony on TV and prayed silently every summer when I visited Nagasaki in my childhood.

While I was staying in Nagasaki, the typhoon hit Kanto area including my place. There seemed to be a heavy rain and wind around my place. I was watching about it on TV news in Nagasaki. When I returned home, the weather was fine. It was so hot in Nagasaki. The summer becomes hotter every year ... scary.

Another photos from Nagasaki

There was a blackout in many places in Nagasaki by the Typhoon Shanshan. That happened to my parents' house and my aunt's house, and the water stopped too. I spent 2 days to reach Nagasaki, so when I arrived at my aunt's house, those came back already. My aunt's house was OK, but the window glasses were broken in some houses around there.
I have to take the train and the buses to go to my parents' house, so it takes long. I went there after I visited my father in the hospital. My mother already cleaned the garden, so it looked good. My parents' house was OK. The windows and the tiles on the roof were not broken. There was an unconvenient place without shops around there. But the vending machine was removed....

There was only a few buses in an hour. I have to use it when I go somewhere from my parents' house. The bus stops around there are shaped a fruit. Strawberry, Mellon, ... etc.

　

On the next day I visited my grandmother in a nursing home. I met her after 1 year, but she didn't remember my face and name. She remembered her son's name (my father), but she was talking the same thing many times by dementia. She didn't try to hear what I said. I heard the same thing over 10 times in 15 or 20 minutes ....
Then I visited my family's grave. I can go there only when I go to Nagasaki. Our grave was OK, but I found another one was broken by the typhoon .... I thought this typhoon was really terrible. My parents' house hadn't been changed since my father fell down by apoplexy. My photo albums taken in my childhood are there.

On the last day I went back to my aunt's house, and had a dinner with my aunt, mother, and sister at the restaurant in the hotel. The hotel was on the hill, so the view was beautiful. It was a course dinner and it was very delicious. This time I was very busy in Nagasaki because of the typhoon ... the time went by very fast.

　

September 17, when I was planning to fly to Nagasaki, my hometown on my summer vacation, The Typhoon Shanshan was just comming there ....
When I arrived at the Haneda Airport by the limousine bus, I checked the flight information. Oh my goodness! All the flights after the one I took had been cancelled ... I was so unlucky. I could change the flight to the other day, but if I do it I had to shorten the stay in Nagasaki. So I decided to go there by the bullet train. This was the wrong decision, though. The bullet train I took stopped at Hiroshima because of the typhoon. And all the hotel were full in Hiroshima. I didn't want to stay all night in the bullet train, so I went back to Okayama to stay at a hotel. It was raining hard and the wind was blowing heavily. I called my mother and heard that the light went out at my parents' house and my aunt's house. Next morning, the weather became fine with heavy wind. I went to the train station after breakfast. I went to Hakata by the bullet train, then went to Nagasaki by the express bus. I finally arrived at my aunt's house around 6 p.m. The light came back, but I saw the electric wire was cut and lying on the ground by the falling wood. I heard there was a tornado in Miyazaki prefecture. The Typhoon Shanshan was the biggest typhoon in Nagasaki in last 10 years. It landed on Nagasaki, there was a blackout in many places, and the planes and trains stopped.
The longest 2 days for me ... finally finished. I spent 2 days to go from my house to Nagasaki. If I had changed the flight on the next day, it would have been much easier. I didn't have to spend such much money and time. I was just unlucky.