My name is Diana Kisseleva. I am 17 and am from San Jose, California. I am currently taking part in CIEE's Japan Semester Abroad Program for High Schoolers. I have been lucky enough to be placed in the beautiful Saitama, Japan, which is about a 40 minutes train ride from Tokyo.
So my day started out as a fairly calm day. I had plans on meeting a few other exchange students in Shibuya at 12 to check out a cat cafe... keep reading