Message from our Ambasidorial Scholar
Posted by Jack Meyers
Here is the delightful message from Kayce Ericksen.
Hello JoAnn and Dave,
Thanks so much for your email, I really like reading about others
experiences with the scholarship since it seems somewhat like a great
unknown right now. I was slightly confused when I first got your email
since it was titled Peace Arch. I opened it while I was at a hostel in
Japan since I had just visited the Peace Arches in Hiroshima that day!
I spent the last week in Southern Korea and Japan which was
incredible. I loved Japan, I think I would really enjoy living
there someday. In college I spent some time studying nuclear
proliferation so the monuments and the museums made it probably one of
the top places I have ever visited. I also got the experience of
meeting with a hibakusha, someone who actually lived through the
a-bomb, it was overwhelming to hear the story of someone who was
actually there and lost her family there, definately an experience of a
lifetime. I also enjoyed vis
iting shrines, castles, and temples, and of course getting throughly
lost! Thank goodness my traveling partner was as easy going as I,
because we had many entertaining adventures! At one point on an island
called Miyajima we took a short cut to the beach and ended up on a two
hour straight up hill then straight down hill journey. There were
spiders that looked like they could swallow us whole, it was about 90 +
and humid, and I was wearing leather sandles with a bit of a heel and
wool shorts! But those are the parts of a vacation that you will never
forget! Anyways I am trying to figure out how to send my pics back
home, but Ill attach a pic of the peace arches in Hiroshima and one of
me and the water shrine in Miyajima. Hope you all are doing well!
Kayse