First, Happy April Fool's Day! Also, Fam Jam I am super sad I'm not there today, but also impressed with your efforts. Sort of. (Now go do your homework Logan.)

After a very early morning of shenanigans, waffles, and songs about said waffles, I was back at the school. My only class on Friday is at one, and I got to the University at about 10:30. I had some time to kill, so I wandered down to the atrium. All week long I've seen this table there with a huge clear container filled with origami cranes. There's a Japanese tradition that says anyone who folds 1000 paper cranes gets a wish, and so they wanted the students here to fold at least that many so they could send the wish to Japan. I had been meaning to stop by all week, being quite the paper-folding enthusiast, but I'm not good with people I don't know and chickened out. Today I went, and not saying a word, dropped a handful of cranes I had made into the box.

I went back to the two girls sitting behind the table, and began to fold more cranes. I wanted to make 16, because that's my favourite number, and I knew I could manage that before my class started. After I finished I helped thread some of the cranes into long strings which are going to be hung up. Eventually, one of the girls left and I began to talk to the other girl, Yokino. Yokino is from Japan, and she moved to Canada only two weeks ago. (Her family had lived here before so she spoke fluent English.) Two weeks ago she and her class from school were coming home from their graduation trip to Italy (She's 18 like me), when they heard about the earthquakes going on around their homes. Yokino told me of how when they got to the airport back home, none of the trains were moving, and she wasn't able to get home at first. Her family lives right around where the nuclear plants are, and when she called home, her mother told her she needed to get out of Japan and go to Canada to live with her sister. All she had with her was the suitcase she had travelled with and some Italian souvenirs.