Fukuzansou Tono

First day in disaster region - oshima island

A travel blog entry by kizunacooks

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... also talked about 72 hour packs which she calls an emergency pack. We also did t shirt printing. That was fun. Following dinner we headed back to elementary school for Taiko (Japanese drumming) all four countries also got to perform. Our kids were great and were a big hit with the ...

First day in disaster region - oshima island

A travel blog entry by kizunacooks

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... also talked about 72 hour packs which she calls an emergency pack. We also did t shirt printing. That was fun. Following dinner we headed back to elementary school for Taiko (Japanese drumming) all four countries also got to perform. Our kids were great and were a big hit with the ...

Travelling again

A travel blog entry by kizunacooks

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... was surprised by the disaster site. It looked a lot better than I expected. The recovery efforts are progressing a lot faster than I thought. There was still a lot of evidence to prove the disaster did hit Kesennuma/Oshima but the people were still all smiles. Rather than typing each students entries, I have copied their journals so please check out the photos to read their ...

A golden past

A travel blog entry by choy

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The next day our path took us past Fukushima. A major city in the north, but clearly not as packed as the major cities in the south, with fewer highrises and a look similar to the suburbs of those cities. Our destination was the Hiraizumi, once the centre of a mighty empire but now a sleepy village living off the memories of a distant past. One legend even has it, that Ghengis Khan originated from here, after the fall of this ...

Heading Home

A travel blog entry by lastonestanding

... my family and then sat down at a free Internet cafe to send a couple of e-mails to my parents and get ready for the flight.

And then, we boarded the flight, and came home. The trip was great fun, and I had an absolutely wonderful time, but there's no denying how happy I was to see my family again after coming off the ...