Hiroshima Peace Park Video!

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Interesting Day!

Today I woke up for school and Akari was gone because she went to go get her visa in Osaka. She will live in Michigan for a year and leaves July 29. So I rode the buss by myself and didn't get lost. I finished my first book 2 yesterday so today I started on a new book. My first class was P.E. Since it was raining we were inside and I didn't have inside shoes, so they gave me a pair that was really small. It really hurt but I pushed through it. Then I just red my book through science. During the break  I went to go find Jerry (my English teacher) to ask him for a copy of Summer Cloud because I really liked it. He gave me a new copy. Then later during the day he gave me and Alison another book which is called My Hiroshima. It' like a kids picture book but it is really good. Then Home Economics which I just read through. Then my classmates told me that the schedule was changed and now I have to go to computers instead of Home Economics. That was confusing. So after lunch and computers I went to ask Jerry about school. It says that  I am only in school  until July 3rd but I am actually in school until the 23rd. The last day for the students and the last day before I leave. But starting on the 5th everyone has exams so Alison and I were told that during test week we have to write essays and sent on little field trips. One to the little peace garden that the school has then writing an essay on it. And the other to the Peace Park which is only a mile from my school. I will so excited when he said that. I will go get to see the peace park 2 times. Then I went to English Conversation where I had to give a improve presentation on my favorite place after everyone did theirs. that was ok. I don't think I will go back to orchestra because it was kind o boring. I really want to finish my book. On story I read was about A Hiroshima Jogakuin College student and what happened to her. The setting was the mountain I live on. The college is o close. So many things happened there. In study hall the librarian gave me more books to read. They were so interesting. One of them was Sadako and the 1000 cranes! I really love that story.Then I went home by myself and when I got home I ate a lot of snacks and wanted to read mt book. I was reading and got kind of sleepy so I took a shower and had energy again. Then later Papa and I went to Hiroshima Station to get Akari. It was weird going outside since reading all of those stories. I can imagine what happened in the places that were described. Especially when I went to Hiroshima Station. Akari wasn't around to translate Japanese to English, so we tried our best and I actually understood most of what they said.

Hiroshima books!

Today I woke up and was tired just like everyday. I went to school and my first class was study hall. I was excited because I can finish looking at all of the pictures in the Hiroshima book. Then I found another book that had stories from A-bomb survivors. I am truly interested in this subject. time was running out so I asked the librarian if I could check the book out. I signed the card for the book b3casue they don't have an electronic system like in America. She was surprised that I was interested and told me that she was happy that I'm trying to learn about it. She then handed me a bunch of books that related to the Hiroshima incident. I really wanted to read all of them. I checked them all out. I really wanted to start reading them. In history class all I did was read the book. This book was published by Hiroshima Jogakuin, which is the school that I am attending presently. It told stories of the  girls who went to Jogakuin who were A-bomb victims, what happened to them, the parents and teachers. I really liked the book because I was in the place that these stories took place. (Well the building was destroyed, so not exactly the place....but you understand.) At the end of history I was almost done with the book. Next in music we were watching a movie so I continued to read. Then I went to lunch and was very hungry so I ate my bento and bought Anko(red bean paste) bread. In the Hiroshima Jogakuin book I found this passage "President Truman later explained that the purpose of using the A-bomb was to minimize causalities for both Japanese and Americans. But the true purpose was to be for the Americans to have a chance to use Atomic bombs before the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and to show American power in the postwar world." This confirmed the true purpose of the bomb. America wanted to be claimed hero of war. Then in Japanese class when I came in with a pile of books my teacher looked at one and opened t to the end and her picture was in it. She wrote one of the stories in the book about a girl and her piano during the bomb. I thought that was so cool. This was also another book published by Hiroshima Jogakuin. Then after school I joined Orchestra club. That was fun. I haven't picked up a violin in a year. In the first book I was reading it was giving vivid descriptions of the events that happened at Hiroshima Jogakuin University. I thought this was cool because it is right by where I live. i could imagine what happened. I want to read many first hand experiences so that when I go to the Peace Park, I can imagine what was happening at that very moment. The stories were very descriptive about where they were and what everyone was doing, so I hope I can picture their stories.

Second week of school!

So very sleepy...don't want to go to school. The second week of school started. English class was boring. English Conversation was boring. Then I went to study hall in the Library. I wanted to look at books  and ended up finding books on Hiroshima so I looked through a lot of those then I found a really big picture book with photos from the bomb. It was really interesting. Then I was just thinking that I'm going to go to the place where all of these pictures took place. It was an overwhelming feeling. All of the pictures were really sad and showed the aftermath of the bomb. It made me think why are innocent people the victims of political warfare? They have nothing to do with political matters, but they are the ones getting hurt while the political heads sit and watch as so many people are being sacrificed because of their decisions. This goes for any political matter even today. Wars, the soldiers for a country, military, everyone is a pawn of the political heads and they just sit there completely safe. That is one thing that completely bothers me. no one looks at the consequences that could happen or the possible outcomes, they just do what they want and they don't look at the outcome of humankind. Anyways....back to school. Then we had PE which was softball again. Then to lunch. I was sooo hungry. my lunch was another Bento and I bought a little pastry. Alison told me that her host mom told her that she doesn't have to come home until 6, so we thought we where just going to walk around after school. I don't know what we planned to do. After lunch I went to the writing class and had a conversation with some of the students. They were telling me that they wanted to go to America, and asked me if I miss it. I told them not really and I like it here better. They thought Japan was boring and they all liked America. Then math....just wrote in my journal. Will never understand math no matter what language it is in. After school Ally and I checked out all of the clubs. The tea ceremony room is really cool. But she wants to do swimming and I want to do orchestra. Afterwards we walked t o7-11  and got a little snack. The we said goodbye and I went to the Bus stop. It was the first time on the bus by myself so I was afraid I would get lost but I was fine. At home I ate my ice cream and decided to continue my study on Hiroshima so I read stories on A-bomb survivors and they all were very interesting and sad. I plan to continue my study because this weekend I am going to the Peace memorial and I want to research as much as I can.