So, I have had no time to blog sorry!  So When I arrived to Japan I had to stay one night in Tokyo and I got to take the Shinkansen the next day for 4 hours to get to Hiroshima!  When I got here my host mom picked me up!  She was so happy to see me that she gave me a hug then she started crying!  We could not understand each other at all because she did not speak english and I did not speak Japanese!  Everything seemed to work though.  The next day they took me to the shore to see the ocean.  While we were collecting rocks and shells we saw a jelly fish that got washed up on the shore.  So of course I had to go over and poke it!

  After we went to the shore we went to the Kure Maritime Museum and saw Yamato the worlds greatest battleship ever constructed in Kure.  We also went to the JMSDF Kure museum.  After the museums we went to a market called You Me, or "dream".  It was absolutely humungous!  

The next day we got to walk thru peace park.  Then we walked thru "down town Hiroshima" to go to lunch.  For lunch we ate Okonomiyaki a famous dish in Hiroshima.  It was so too much food for me that my "to san" had to finish mine for me.  After stuffing ourselves full we walked to Hiroshima Castle 

In the  garden area of the castle there was a cool samurai performance going on.  I didn't really understand it but it was really cool.  At the end of the performance they were giving away a poster.  To win the poster you had to beet one of the samurais at "rock, paper, scissors"  Some how I won out of the group of 20 or so and I didn't even know we were playing "rock, paper, scissors" because they were speaking Japanese!