Sound of rustling blankets be heard coming from an angle, although the sounds on the requested all of the oxygen. A sliding metal door opens and closes as early in the morning to tend to business activity rises.
The water is not running. Six of the portable toilets lined outside the dojo – three men and women. A five gallon jug of plastic spout and a bowl for the implementing rules for the temporary sink. SOAP, hand sanitizer, disposable towels and trash sit next to a jug of water. Cleanliness is of the utmost importance to prevent the spread of disease and bacteria.
At 5: 30 Jun, Suzuki has a permanent couple wearing a Burgundy sweat pants and long sleeved black under a shirt of his black SURFboard ® aloha shirt outside the entrance to the dojo. When he comes to her in the morning, two women walk to the smoke, and they greet each other with a softly spoken "Ohayou gozaimasu.". It is a friendly exchange yourself in France.
In the morning is a new visit starts day one after the March 11, the evacuation of 41 set in Minamisanriku, the production of the cells in the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the northeastern Japanese tsunami and and this small fishing port, almost out of the prefectural Miyagi is emptied.
Suzuki-Shizugawa, is one of the High School in the center of the evacuation, which holds a seat in the world in the city, where his house was once a little more than 12 weeks ago above the 105 residents. Most of the residents here have escaped back to their bag of travel only. Some such as the Suzuki was just lucky to be alive.
At 5: 50 Suzuki walks to the football field and two flights of stairs, vertical Tokubetsu Yogo Homu, home of the elderly Jikein special, in which he and his parents fled after they saw their home city, tsunami engulfing. Inside, he walks down a dark, solid debris in the hallway, and leads us to the room where they were trapped by floodwaters of the tsunami.
More than two months later, you can still see the Brown below, the maximum number that indicates how close to drowning, they only had. foot breath left in the sky. He reaches toward the curtain rod, metal, and explains how he raised above their heads to keep themselves in the water.
"I thought that I was going to die," he said. If the water is kept growing for another few minutes, he and his parents are likely to be a list of more than 14,000 people have joined the confirmed number of dead or missing, the Miyagi Prefectural alone.
Suzuki's story is just one of many survival stories, to be heard in France, living throughout Japan 2559 shelters. Even though all their lives have changed forever, the inhabitants attempt to forward, and to go back so much a normal life as the one under the circumstances might be.
At 7: 00 pm at school, children are all incisors, uniform, and the Government's airport shuttle buses bound for schools, Iwanuma, Miyagi 30 minutes away. For parents who are still in the job to go to work just as before. Others do chores around the shelter. The elderly can walks "or sit around drinking tea, eating and talking with the new sembei neighbors on the other side is three-foot-high, 1/8 cm thick cardboard wall, which separates them from their. This is living a new life in evacuation center.
There is little privacy. As you can iterate through the shelter, you will see each family to be inside. You can see who is diluted, and who is messy. One family, who made the door that opens and closes. Another sliding door made clothes for the possession of the holder. Blankets are stacked neatly cardboard against walls.
Approximately 3 000-square-foot, 40 Families resident in the dojo. More than 70 square feet is no cardboard cubicles. Despite the difficult quarters had been the conflicts. Everyone has to be adapted to the new as well as their living conditions. Everyone understands each other's plight. This is a new community.
Noon lunch is served in a few of the residents who remain in the dojo during the day. Is the size of the kitchen, they can use to prepare for the big metal pots and bowls, family-style meals. Today they take packed onigiri (rice balls), takikomi gohan (rice in the financial sector), and miso soup.
After lunch, some residents to walk upstairs to browse the free market. The residents can pick up in everyday items such as diapers, SOAP and clothing, as well as books, toys and school supplies free of charge.
The final is on the outside of the newly filled in as temporary housing units. Protective fencing is removed and the asphalt was ready and will be closed, but the entities remain asumiskelvottomat in the near future. Is not yet running water Minamisanriku in many parts. Water distribution is still contaminated from the tsunami, which flattened this quiet town along the cedar trees on the hills and the Pacific Ocean. ?Wet clothes to dance the afternoon wind clothesline in between, while the second load of Laundry in the washing machine is agitating. Near Sena Sato, 4 and 5, of the harvest in the Rukatunturi, each play with hula-hoop.
2: 30 in the afternoon, the Japan Self defense forces in Okinawa, which are stationed in the high school as part of the school, 08.03 kitsune udon gym, which acts as a warehouse supplies a load cases. Soon after, they operate in the hot water is used in the evening the sauna jugs.
The group arrives at the dentists dentures, inspect the shelter, with the exception of some residents. The doctors ' advice and make regular visits to the workers of all physical and mental well-being. Volunteers cleaning the portable toilet, do its utmost, to run errands with the elderly and children.
5: 30 Buffet dinner. Association line up and pile fabrics styrofoam bowls of rice, cucumber, salad, watermelon, and packaged in plastic makeshift onigiri and cardboard trays and shuffle back into their living areas, they eat with his family. Hands them a beer is legal in the Suzuki drinking age. One of the residents of two slides, and smiles into the cans in his apron pockets. It's not fine dining, but it is enough for all.
After dinner, head of the students upstairs on the square in a small room shelving modules on either side and the Middle table. Five students are crammed on to school have not applied to computers and the internet for a 60-square-foot space.
Square outside, the other students are treated to special training room, a multi-purpose, equipped with a folding table chairs and tables. On the other side of the folded baloons tables it is separated from the more facilities. Empty shipping boxes are stacked to create two more walls. This, in particular in the evening with a few soldiers in the Japanese Self defense forces are teaching children in the Okinawan sanshin, the shamisen style.
At 9: 00 it's lights out. Rustling sound in oxygen and blankets returns to the solar powered portable lights illuminate the walkways dojo. Most of the residents Call it a night to sit outside,. some of the smoking a cigarette "and each, among other things, to speak of.
The future is unknown to those in France. Many are not sure, if they remain. Government officials have yet to decide whether residents can rebuild the tsunami zone, or if they are elsewhere.
Suzuki has his home Minamisanriku
"Do not want to remain in my home city," he said. "The fact that if I am born."
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