The beautiful island Miyajima

We went to the beautiful island Miyajima on May 2nd.
It was the last day to spend time in Hiroshima.
We had to leave there and go to Kyoto.


When we went to Miyajima, we saw a guy who is from America in a train.
His name is Ryan and he also wanted to go to Miyajima.
So we went there togeter.


We had to cross the sea by ferry. It was awesome!
When we found the HUGE torii, we all were so excited and took a lot of picutres!
It was beautiful.


We finally arrived at Miyajima and there are lots of building which is so beautiful.

We wanted to go to close to torii and Anna and Tammy, Julie rolled up their pants and went to close to torii.
I wanted to do but my pants were too skinny to roll up...
Julie carried me on her back then!! She is so kind!!

Anna and Julie, me.

Julie carried me on her back!

There are LOTS of deers!

And they ate my map!!

It is my favorite picture!

They are so cute, aren't they?

We were going to the top of the island!

We saw a cool guy Pete and his wife.

He is really really funny and his wife is so cute.

Pete wrote "I'm Pete from Austria. Kiss" on the back of my hand.

We took a picture with Pete's wife.

Think about PEACE!

We went to Peace Park and Peace Memorial Museum,
Atomic Bomb Dome on May 1st.
I have been there on school trip when I was 14 years old.
I was sure I would feel differently.
And I was also sure my Canadian friends (Anna, Tammy, Julie)
and I would feel differently because A-bomb was dropped in "JAPAN".

I felt like this before.
I watched a movie "Letters from Iwo jima" with my ex-boyfriend
who is from America. This movie is about World War ll.
I was thinking about our grand parents when we watched this movie.
My grand parents and his grand parents must have been enemies.
And they should have killed each other.
After 62 years, their grand children (my ex-boyfriend and me) were dating.
When I was a little girl, my grand mom kept talking about World War ll.
She didn't hate America, she just talked about her experience to me a lot.
I felt something weird when we watched this movie with my ex-boyfriend.
I cannot exprain well but if I have watched this movie with "JAPANESE" friend,
I would not feel like that.
It was importand to watch this movie with my ex-boyfriend who is from
the country which used to be our enemy.

Anna, Maki, Julie

At Peace Memorial Museum

These pictures are from Peace Memorial Museum.

A lot of people lost their family.

Before


Now (The name is A-bomb Dome.)

A-bomb broke everithing...

A-bomb killed lots of people...

Deformed glass bottle.

A-bomb Dome in the night.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

Himeji castle

I went to Himeji castle with Anna and Julie, Tammy on April 30th!
I was so excited to go on a trip with them :)

We left Osaka in the morning and went to Himeji by a train.

Anna and me at a station!

Julie touched the bullet train.

We took this train!!

We arrived at Himeji and went to the Himeji castle.
It was first time to ge there.
I really like Japanese culture and old building like this castle!!
So I was really really excited to go into the castle.

It was so beautiful and HUGE!!

I have Himeji castle!!

We were clibming the wall!!

Cherry blossom was dead!