March 17, 2012
by Zhenyu Li
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March 16, 2012
by Ellie Ng
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We are selling T-shirts to fund-raise for JEN and Power of Japan! This past week we had our booth outside Ross and Proctor dining halls. Many people came up to us and asked about our project and the two NGOs. Reconstruction work in some areas is still very slow, and people in the afflicted areas still need a lot of help in terms of physical and psychological recovery. Thank you everyone for showing your support!
Sale outside Ross Dining Hall
For those who haven’t got a T-shirt yet, we have only 60 left! Please support us by ordering a T-shirt through Middlebury College Box Office, or contact Olivia at olau@middlebury.edu.
See you around!
March 13, 2012
by Ellie Ng
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On March 11, 2011, I was in Singapore with a group of high school students on their service trip. While waiting for the students to get ready for their morning trip in the living room of our hostel, I overheard other travelers’ conversation about the earthquake in Japan.
I checked the internet news, saw the images and realized that things were pretty bad there.
And I was shocked by the word “Fukushima”.
My first thought was, is my host family in Fukushima okay? I was in a small town in Fukushima called Sukagawa, which is a little outside the 20km evacuation zone, for almost 2 months in the summer of 2010. I stayed with this family (organic rice farmers) for 3 weeks.
My host dad replied me that night:
March 12, 2012
by Arturo Alviar
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I found out about the earthquake in Japan on March 10, 2011 at around 10:30am.
My brother called me over “Arturo, Look at this.”
He pointed at his television set; the local 10 o’clock news was reporting about an incident in Japan.
What I saw on the screen seemed like a scene taken from a movie: powerful waves pulverized houses, people waved for help, water consumed a whole town.
I could not believe my eyes.
