(March 17th) We visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the A-bomb dome building. It was really sad but something I wanted to see. The A-bomb dome building was one of the buildings closest to the centre of where the bomb hit and still stands today.

I use to read a book called “Sadako” that was based on a girls life impacted from the bomb and her way to cope with it with cranes. It inspired me to make cranes in the first place and I loved seeing a memorial dedicated to her with cranes donated from all over.

Around noon we went on a ferry to go to another island that had so many wild deer and a huge shrine there called Itsukushima Shrine. We got some of their famous maple leaf sweets filled with different stuff and waited until low tide so we could go out closer to the big structure.

We met up with his friends family for the rest of the day. They had a young daughter and son who were the cutest kids alive. We visited the shrine and afterwards walked and took a cable car ride up to the top of the mountain where we got a gorgeous view.

While walking to dinner both the kids held my hands and the little girl really wanted to sit beside me at dinner. We poked and tickled eachother while waiting for dinner. It was at a Kajun style restaurant which had amazing food. Such a coincidence but for dinner another family joined us and the father had visited Zambia! Out of all the countries in the world, especially within Africa, he visited Zambia.

After dinner we quickly stopped at a bridge he wanted to show me. It was built in a very different way.