China

It has become increasingly difficult to find time in which to write blogs. However, our trip to China was SO awesome I knew we needed to write about it. Friday, the 6th, we left from Hiroshima to Beijing. Before we got to Beijing I found out that someone I knew from Deerfield High School was going to be in Beijing at the same time. So when we got to Beijing we threw our luggage in the room and headed out to meet him for dinner. After dinner we hit the town.

Over the next two days we went to the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, and the Summer Palace. Needless to say, we filled our days. We ate amazing Chinese food and went out at nights with my friend from Deerfield. After the first view days we realized that we had only gotten about 5 hours of sleep!! But we were having an amazing time.

Our flight was scheduled to leave Monday morning. The story is very long, but I will make it short. After 10 hours in the airport our flight was canceled due to bad weather near Japan and we had to stay one more night. We had met some really nice Japanese people who were on the same flight and we went out to dinner with them. We got back Tuesday night. Since then we have been so busy at school and home.

We have less than 2 weeks left in Japan. We are busy trying to arrange plans with all of our friends here, packing, and preparing for the new ALT who will take our place. It will be a crazy 2 weeks. I feel like there just aren't enough hours in a day!