Reflective Hiroshima
Woke at: 6.30am
Arrived back at hotel: 8.00pm
Weather: 35 – clear and hot
Transport : Bullet train, bus and a fair bit of leg work…..with our cases.
Distance walked: 13914 steps or 10.2km
Fastest Speed: 306km/h
Today, Sunday the 8th of September we woke at the crack of dawn ready and packed for the exquisite adventure that awaited us. We woke at 7:00am and luckily had already packed our stuff the night before. We headed down to breakfast and off we went.
We caught the bullet train from Kyoto to Hiroshima on the train. I played Emoji UNO and Doctor’s with Izzy and Shaeli, it was loads of fun. We got off the AIR CONDITIONED train into the stinking hot heat and headed to the hotel. We arrived at the hotel and all I could think to myself was that this place is too fancy for us, but oh well. Then we set off to a park where we met these soccer players that were about to play a game in Hiroshima.
After that we caught a bus from the train station all the way to the Peace Park. There we saw the A-bomb Dome, it was a beautiful piece of structure and amazed me how it stayed up. From there we headed to the Sadako statue where I rang the golden crane to commit a life of peace. We also hung the cranes that had been made in Ballarat and we had carried with us for this moment.
Then it was time to go to the museum. The museum was touching and moving. It was sad but also really nice, it was horrible to think of all the tragedy that had happened in our world and how we have tried to stop it. It is sad to think that there is still violence going on in this world, maybe we will never never reach world peace but at least we could try to help our earth and help our lives.
Savannah
Today we got up at 6:30 am and we went to the train station to get on the Bullet train so we could get to Hiroshima.
On the way we saw some solar panels and lots of rice fields. When we arrived, we went to our hotel and dropped the suitcases off.
After that we went to the park, where we put our sunscreen on and saw some high level soccer team.
Mr Young was very excited about lunch. We sat in front of a hotplate while they were cooking up a delicious lunch.
Next we went and hung all the paper cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument. I rang the bell and wished for peace. Going through the Hiroshima peace memorial museum was very sad and some of the stories were upsetting. I hope the same thing never happens again.
We came back on the bus and we went to dinner.
Max