Blog #4: The tirp for Hiroshima (Eikou Takahashi)

Hello, everyone, this is Eikou.

In this summer, I visited my father’s parents’ home which is my grandparents’ home. Today, I am going to talk about it.

 

From 9/2 to 9/4, I visited my father’s parents’ home to go to the hospital to see my grandfather. I have not really been there for about 10 years or something because my father’s parents’ home is located in Hiroshima which is so far from Tokyo (It takes about 4-5hours by Shinkansen) that I hardly can visit. It was also because I was too young to travel by myself 10 years ago, I had to go with my parents. However, we could not adjust our schedule.

Anyways I have not been there for over 10 years due to those reasons.

 

 

When I got there, my grandmother seemed like very pleasant to see me again. We had so much to talk about even though we last met a year ago in Tokyo.

The next day I went to the hospital to see my grandfather. Honestly, I was worried because I have heard from my parents that my grandfather has a quite bad disease. Although the operation went well, I was still a little bit worried about him.

But actually, I did not have to worry too much which was good. His condition was a lot better than I thought that I could not imagine he actually had taken the operation about three weeks ago.

I and my grandfather talked a lot as well. In this time he talked to me things he has never told me before such as his experiences during WW2. Since some people do not want to talk about it, it was very glad to know how he lived during WW2.

 

 

Although it was a very short trip, it became an unforgettable experience to me. I hope his condition is getting better and better, and I really wish to visit them again after his release from the hospital.