Annelise Giseburt ‘16, Hiroshima Fellow

I came to Hiroshima to learn its history. Perhaps, to a certain extent, I’ve accomplished that goal. But over the last year or so, I’ve become increasingly interested in the history I’m witnessing.

During that time, Hiroshima occasionally felt like the center of the world. At others, it felt insurmountably removed, and no amount of modern technology could bring me closer to a homeland going through, well, a lot.

Annelise Giseburt ‘16, Hiroshima Fellow

There was one main reason I wanted this Fellowship: to live in Hiroshima. The city instantly captivated me when, as a college third-year, I visited for two days with my study abroad group. Dusk was falling as our bus rolled across rivers into the city, and by the time my friends and I ventured out to try to find the multi-story building filled with okonomiyaki shops, Okonomimura (we only made it to a shop across the street from the Mura, thinking we’d arrived), it was totally dark.