Field Studies - 2012

We didn't do much on the last day. The only thing we got to do at Hiroshima on the last day was to eat breakfast (a buffet! :D) and buy some souvenirs at the station.
The breakfast was veryy good, since it was a buffet we got to eat various types of food and eat A LOT :D (although i didn't eat much since I wasn't very hungryy... ahh I'm starting to regret about it D:). After we had breakfast until 8:30, we left the hotel and walked to Hiroshima station. We spent some time buying souvenirs here. I bought a packet of oysters, a piece of conger eel, a hiroshima tsuke-men set, and a food called shiokara which has some oyster included to it (: (apparently called as "salted fish guts" in English..)
After we used some of our time buying souvenirs, we soon went on the train for Shin-Yokohama station and got home at around 15:00 or so.

To be honest, I wasn't very excited for field studies this year (as always) and wasn't expecting much for it, since some of my friends have already gone to Hiroshima and said "It was pretty lame". However, by going to Hiroshima for field studies this year, I realized that their words were totally wrong, or their planning for field studies was just simply really poor which made their field studies really boring. haha sucks to them (: jokingg but yes... HIROSHIMA WAS SO MUCH FUN (: We were able to experience so many thing we'd never be able to at Tokyo (or even for our whole lifetime :D), such as going to various castles and having a close look to them. 
Also it was a great opportunity to learn about the atomic bomb since I had some interest to it (although this may sound imprudent..) and was thinking I'd want to know about it more. The stories of the Hiroshima atomic bom were as expected, very cruel and excruciatingly painful to hear or know about. When listening to Matsubara san's story, I realized how happy and fortunate we are for having a life without mostly anything lacking. It is hard to believe how still many people are suffering from the A-bomb disease and will for their rest of their lifetime... I think what the American's did are unforgivable, but as Matsubara-san said, we do have to accept their sin and forgive them sometime since as she says, not all American's are "bad", in fact, most of them are "good", just that the one's who were involved in this plan were "bad".

Thinking back about it... Hiroshima was great. We were able to make many memories at Hiroshima (Even the time we spent for hiking has become a good memory!), and those unforgettable memories are priceless. Thank you to the school who gave us a great opportunity for everything, and Ms. De vries, Ms. Wilson, and Genki-san who accompanied us for this field studies and take cared of us.
Now I really miss it, and I wish I can go back to those days. (the time where I'm not piled up with homework... D:) Hope we'll be able to go to Hiroshima some time again, with ALL of us (: