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-Description of South Pacific Pohnpei (Pompeii) island visit -
2013-08-31
 Only a school closure period was summer vacation for me, but was in the Pompeii island until 1:45 with a charge account changing on a day from Sunday on 4th to 12th even if I told you to be absent in this summer. It was humid, hot every day. But I feel like having been some memorable days.
 
  In the story that I heard without what at a monastery, the sister who already worked in Pompeii island for 35 years heard that I was, but did not see it until I saw sister Saito gone back to at one time in Japan and heard a story even if I thought that it was what a visit realized possibly. Then a story advances smoothly and, anyway, will do one-week meditation there. This was the progress story that only God still felt when it was the effect.
 
  I came home and I filled the bag with 4.5 books alone one week later and left the Malaysian international exchange. It is 9 in Kansai Airport on the night of 4th :Fly away to 00; straight to Guam. I arrived at around 1:00 on the morning of 5th. Even as for the transit, there was very severe passport control, but 8 morning the next airplane :It is 20 minutes. I am dying to be sleepy, and to be sleepy. But an air conditioner works too much and is cold. The thing which civilization was really investigated the convenience and was the time when I understood strangely when the each person's thought was the thing which was not valued. I slept on a pillow with baggage well if I noticed.
 
  It is also 8 :I boarded the airplane of the Pompeii line of 20 minutes. I see only the sea and a cloud from a window on seeing the bottom. When three hours passed, I began to go down suddenly and landed at the island. I say that it is "chuku" when I ask the next young man with "Pompeii Island". It was the site of a hard-fought battle truck island that produced in wartime Japanese many dead people. It landed at the Pompeii Island to aim at in a little less than one hour after leaving the truck island for approximately 50 minutes. I received meeting of sisters and it was humid and had you take it to the monastery in boiling heat. I borrowed one room of the monastery and began meditation while quieting the unstable heart of the trip.
 
  Originally the front of World War II is under the control of Germany, and this island is called "ponape Island". "ponape island" was called until 1980, but since then a Micronesian federal government seemed to select it as Pompeii Island formally. But the name ponape seems to be still used at a school or the hospital.
 
  The Pompeii Island where there is neither the mosquito nor the snake is famous as the place that a typhoon produces near. However, probably because of abnormal weather, I heard that the place that a typhoon produced now changed off the Philippines. When a sister came to this ground, rainy season and the dry season seemed to be divided properly, but it seems to rain now somewhere of the day.
  That reminds me approximately six hours were blackouts in this island in days. I thought that the thing which I put in the refrigerator might ache, and an answer, the place that I heard "was not time as the contents of the freezer came loose" came back. The word "that the words of the nation would go to the government for if the contents of the freezer seemed to be solved" felt like knowing somehow.
 
  I remembered life in the Philippines incidentally. Because there was electricity all day on the day that does not come, there is the memory that was really in trouble. I have been to the town to buy ice. When I bought a board of the ice through hardships while riding it together, and getting on a bicycle and put it in the rucksack and came back in a boat, I had been already accompanied by electricity and did it in a funny story and was not considerably precocious.
 
  Sisters took it to a certain antiquity with them for 2,000 years called Nanba Dole on the weekend. I was cooking umu which baked various things in the roaster on the stone which I burnt on the way and bumped by chance and experienced that I said that a fruit of the bread which I baked was taste same as a baked potato. In addition, I pierce a fresh thing, and the juice of the coconut is not left in having drunk delicious juice though it is tepid either.
 
  Population was surprised at saying that there was a Catholic believer 60% in the island of approximately 40,000 people, but was to help the Catholic priest who a deacon was put in 11 churches each now in eternity, and decreased from the times when fathers of the Society of Jesus propagated it, and to hit shimaki. I visited four churches, but came on seeing there being the church of around 1,200 people from at least 300 people. It was impressive to be the church where a lot of child and young men were full of life everywhere.
 
  On last Sunday, I was asked for English mass at the St. Josef church under the monastery. It was around 200 people first, but when mass began, I gradually increased and it was 300 or became full of 400 believers when I went. Still it was that another 100 people entered according to the sister. Anyway, it is a sermon by mass and the Pompeii word in English. The mass was over while listening to a singing voice of the unique, splendid harmony which soaked into the depths of the heart so as not to be able to express it by the words at all.
 
  I remembered a church of ex-Nagasaki while hearing that most of them spent both one hour and two hours on foot and were it in a church.
 
  On an airplane to Guam of 1:45 a.m. on 12th, it took off in the rain, but it was an event to remain in the heart deeply very that sisters had you see it off till the last in spite of the midnight. I wanted to thank God again.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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