Strong desire to return hometown and teach

(by Mr. Kengo Yoshikawa (26), a teacher returned to the parents’ home in Tarou, Miyako City)

I came home after 40 days, and felt relieved to find out that everyone including my family are doing better that I had expected. I am also glad that Tarou Ichi Elememtary School, the one I graduated from, is still in good condition. I teach in Shizuoka right now, but I started to feel the strong desire to teach the children in my hometown who encountered the tsunami.

Iwate Nippo, Tsugaru Tendenko ~ Messages from the disaster hit areas~ 

http://www.iwate-np.co.jp/tendenko.html

Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano

Even to this area… I was speechless

(by Ms. Motoko Miura (64), a housewife living as an evacuee at Nochinoiri Community Center in Ofunato City)

The tsunami approached just in front of my face, and I hurt my left leg when running away from it. I watched from the high ground that houses and cars were washed away. I did not expect that tsunami would come to even this area and was speechless. I will think about the future after moving in to the temporary housing.

Iwate Nippo, Tsugaru Tendenko ~ Messages from the disaster hit areas~ 

http://www.iwate-np.co.jp/tendenko.html

Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano