The Road Less Traveled

Hiroshima: Prologue

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

So it’s about 9am here in Japan, and I have one class today: my tea ceremony class. If you don’t know what tea ceremony is, Wikipedia has a nice article on the subject. This is our last of two classes on this subject, where we will actually learn and get to practice the art of making Japanese tea (it’s nearly as boring as it sounds, too ). Then later today we leave on our trip to Hiroshima. We’ll be gone until pretty late Sunday night.

Dr. Thompson from OU got here about two weeks ago. It’s good to get to see him more often; it’s a lot of fun and it makes us all feel a little more like we’re at home here. He’s been keeping us up to date on what the plan is for Hiroshima and getting everything together for the trip. Anyway, since we’re going to be several hundred miles away for a few days, you’re not going to be able to contact me really… and I, of course, probably won’t be contacting you either.

Here’s a basic outline of the plan for the trip…

Friday: Leave on the 2pm Bus to go to Jinryo station (the closest train station). From there, take the train to Nagoya, where we board the Shinkansen. From there, take the Shinkansen to Shin-Oosaka, switch to another Shinkansen line and go to Hiroshima, where we’ll check into our hotel.

Saturday: Go to Peace Park and meet Koko, Dr. Thompson’s former babysitter and Hiroshima bomb survivor. Do various other things which I either forget or aren’t set in stone yet.

Sunday: Go to Miyajima island, climb the mountain, see monkeys, etc. Then come home the opposite of the way we came.

I’ll post about the trip more in detail when I get back. Bye!