School and a New View!

Today I woke up and ate breakfast. Akari really like donuts so she brought home Krispy Kreme yesterday. So we ate that for breakfast. Also yesterday Akari bought me some Japanese sweets as a gift. Walking off of the bus to school was a new experience itself. When I got to school I realized something....I left one of my books at the bus stop! I was freaking out so I told my homeroom teacher and he said he will look into it.  I hope that it is still there  or my host mom maybe found it. To take my mind off of that during Japanese Literature I read my book. Then study hall which I had with Alison. She was telling me about mormons, then I just continued to read. After study hall I went to Calligraphy and I was scared that I was going to be terrible at it but it was really fun. After Calligraphy my homeroom teacher told me that Mama found my book at the bus stop. I was so relived. Then I ate lunch. I ate with Alison's class and had an interesting conversation about piercings and tattoos. None of the girls had their ears pierced. So Alison and I were trying to explain gauges to them. Alison had an open coke on her desk when a student accidentally knocked it over all over Alison's uniform. She had to wear her P.E uniform for the rest of the day. Then after lunch I went to computers where this time they actually tried to talk to me. But I still didn't understand much so I ended up reading. Then in English and History I just read my book. I got home by myself again. On the way home I saw the bridge again that was in the book I read. I wanted to confirm that it was the same so I asked my host mom about it. She said that it was used during the war for soldiers to walk across it's a very skinny narrow bridge. Mama and I were looking around the neighborhood on google earth and tried to find places described in the books I read. It was interesting. I ate a bunch of snacks and we all joked about getting fat so I said I will go running tomorrow. I told Akari tat we will also watch a scary movie. My Japanese is improving tremendously and wish that I could just stay here. I love it here in Hiroshima. When I walk outside now I have a new view on the city instead of just being a city, I see years of history. Earlier when reading my book at school I heard a siren and thought it was an air raid siren and got scared but then realized that, air raids happened in the book just fueling my imagination.