Saturday, March 19, 2011

3/19 Volunteering

Today we woke up, had some breakfast and headed down to Oshikiri Gym in Kitakata. That is where the evacuees [read: Tsunami victims] are being housed.




There were lists up of missing and found persons and notes people could post if they were looking for someone.



We brought some clothes and games for the people there:




We spent our time there almost entirely in the children's playroom, playing board games and dodgeball with the kids until music and dinner time.







There were some pretty cute kids:







On our way out we saw the room where they scan people who are coming from Fukushima. We decided to get scanned too, for fun. They scan you with a device that has a radiation reader on it. Mine never moved off zero.






All four of us:



radiation level? ZERO. duh.

And now I have a certificate to prove it :)

ps. When we were walking back from the gym, it was raining. A man pulled over in his car and handed us not one, but two umbrellas. So nice!

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