Somebody screamed my name from outside. I went outside to see what was happening and the teacher told me that somebody was calling me. I answered the phone and it was somebody from the exchange student company. The woman said that they had been trying to reach me the whole weekend. She sounded so relieved when se heard my voice. I though it would be hard to communicate since she was talking in Japanese but I did just fine until she asked where I was. With my language skill I could only tell her that I was at our schools dormitory so I gave to phone to one of my teachers and he explained to her the exact location of the place. The teacher handed the phone to me and asked if I wanted to get on that bus which was going to take me and Max safely to Tokyo and I said yes. Ayelet told me to ask her if the others could have taken the bus with me so I handed the phone to Ayelet and she spoke to them. They didn’t know if it was possible for them to go but it was worth the try. We would go there together and see if we could all get on that bus.
We were in a hurry. I told Ayelet that we had to go first to my house to get my passport since I had left it there. I couldn’t believe how stupid I had been. When I packed all my other important stuff, I didn’t remember to pack my passport which was probably the most important thing I owned. Ayelet said that we couldn’t take the risk of missing the bus if we went to get my passport. I said that I can’t get home if I don’t have my passport, but Chayse interrupted me and said that it would be okay even if I didn’t have my passport. He said that I would be sent home even without it. I calmed down about it.
We packed all of our stuff and started saying goodbye to people. I thought that all had happened too soon. I didn’t know how to react so I just started crying again. I wasn’t ready to leave them all. ”What if my friends can’t get on the bus?” I thought. I was freaking out. Everything was happening too fast.
I remember hugging Kou-san who had come to visit us and she was crying a lot. I hugged Li, Monkey and Mole too even though we weren’t that good friends. It was really hard to say goodbye to Bai and especially to Zou who I was used to seeing everyday at school. Zou was one of my best friends and I didn’t want to say goodbye to him, but I had to. Then there was Koshien... I don’t know what happened there but I kind of felt that he was extremely sad that I was leaving. He was looking at me with those sad sad eyes and I just didn’t know what to do. I was lost. I hugged him quickly and he took my bag and escorted me to the car. His sad eyes were still staring at me and felt like I needed to leave quickly so I wouldn’t stay just because of his sad eyes.
I felt like my heart was breaking so I kept crying the whole time. Once we got in the car I finally calmed down a little bit. We were sitting in the car with Ayelet and Shin on the front and with me, Bill, Chayse and Tsitika in the back. We started to drive away from the dorms but we heard a really weird sound coming from the car. We were too heavy, the car couldn’t take us all. We just drove back to the dorms and asked if we could get another driver to take us the student’s and Ayelet and Shin would lead the way to the place that we were going.
I got on the front seat of the car and Bill came to say to me that the teacher had said to him that he could sit in the front. I said to him that it was because of me that we were getting out so I would sit in the front. I really just wanted to sit in the front because I was bigger that everybody else and it wouldn’t have been really comfortable to the others to sit with me in the back. Before we left Mou came to say goodbye to us and he wished us luck. I checked the side mirror of the car and looked back to the others that were watching us leave. I was hoping that they all would get home safely from there. I especially hoped that for Zou and Bai. We were just sitting in the car and the tv was on. It kept showing the same commercial over and over again and it was annoying me. I asked the others what was going on with that commercial. Tsitika said that it was probably just telling us to help each other since it was showing people helping others climb the stairs and giving the seat to an elderly. We were wondering around Sendai and this time we could actually see the damage. The city was deserted exactly like in I Am Legend. The Sendai station was empty and covered with something, I didn’t know what it was. It was getting dark and we were almost there.
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