Day 12
Trains, trains, and a few more trains but now we are in Hiroshima. After leaving our bags in the cozy rooms we headed back to the lobby because Oliver and Susan had gotten separated from 
the group and we were supposed to be meeting to go to an island as a group. Since this didn’t appear to be what was working out we decided as a group that we should go to the peace park 
today, but since the cranes were not done yet we had a mass making, learning, and assembling of cranes. After we had done all that we could and we made it pretty close to 1,000 we made our way to the park. It is almost impossible 
to explain how it felt leaving those cranes. It was very moving and felt very important and I think that it was. Since we are such an international school making a unified gesture of peace was very special. I could feel that everyone was touched 
and silenced by being at the park. I am very glad that we were able to come here and experience this place, because it is truly like no other place and almost indescribable. We eventually made our way to the museum. I must say that it was amazingly done. It was not all shock value and gore but more as a testimony of the facts and the stance that no one else should have to endure this. I feel like can’t convey this message properly because a lot of it is pure emotion. This topic is so hard for me to understand because the event is something that I have no first hand knowledge of. I can’t possibly comprehend what it is like to have my whole 
world destroyed in literally an 
instant. I think that the best comment I heard came from an old American that was also touring the museum he said, “In war no one ever wins.” After seeing things like this it makes me want to take some current world leaders and shake them and ask them why can’t they see what war does to people and I want to ask them what they really think they are going to gain from war. I just don’t understand. I saw the extremity of human creation today. I watched and helped make small paper cranes for peace and I also saw the A-bomb and what it did. Both are human creations. After the museum these school kids came up to a small group of us and gave us small paper cranes with wishes for peace attached to them. I think this was the best thing that could have happened after being in that museum, because it brought the whole experience full circle. For anyone who ever visits Japan the Hiroshima Peace Park is a place that you must visit. Well, until tomorrow.
the group and we were supposed to be meeting to go to an island as a group. Since this didn’t appear to be what was working out we decided as a group that we should go to the peace park 
today, but since the cranes were not done yet we had a mass making, learning, and assembling of cranes. After we had done all that we could and we made it pretty close to 1,000 we made our way to the park. It is almost impossible 
to explain how it felt leaving those cranes. It was very moving and felt very important and I think that it was. Since we are such an international school making a unified gesture of peace was very special. I could feel that everyone was touched 
and silenced by being at the park. I am very glad that we were able to come here and experience this place, because it is truly like no other place and almost indescribable. We eventually made our way to the museum. I must say that it was amazingly done. It was not all shock value and gore but more as a testimony of the facts and the stance that no one else should have to endure this. I feel like can’t convey this message properly because a lot of it is pure emotion. This topic is so hard for me to understand because the event is something that I have no first hand knowledge of. I can’t possibly comprehend what it is like to have my whole 
world destroyed in literally an 
instant. I think that the best comment I heard came from an old American that was also touring the museum he said, “In war no one ever wins.” After seeing things like this it makes me want to take some current world leaders and shake them and ask them why can’t they see what war does to people and I want to ask them what they really think they are going to gain from war. I just don’t understand. I saw the extremity of human creation today. I watched and helped make small paper cranes for peace and I also saw the A-bomb and what it did. Both are human creations. After the museum these school kids came up to a small group of us and gave us small paper cranes with wishes for peace attached to them. I think this was the best thing that could have happened after being in that museum, because it brought the whole experience full circle. For anyone who ever visits Japan the Hiroshima Peace Park is a place that you must visit. Well, until tomorrow.
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