Dear Friends and Family,We had to backtrack to Hiroshima (about half an hour), and then caught another Shinkansen to Fukuoka, which I think took about an hour and a half to cover vastly more distance. Our hotel room in Fukuoka was more like

Dear Friends and Family,This is the view from our window the next morning. A class of students getting ready to leave on the ferry and getting their instructions. They are very quiet and orderly, although there were some wild ones the night before,