3/11

1 year ago the big tsunami hit japan. I have watched japanese television when the news were everywhere and a friend of mine and me sat there,far far away in germany and couldn't believe what we see. It was in the morning in germany and we just watched and didn't know what to say or what to do. It was just horrible just by watching.
After that we started to sell cookies & cakes in school to give the money to the red cross.
Even after that some kind of emptyness was there. I was shocked. I still am when I think about the tremendous suffering and fear those people must have gone through.
And now I'm shocked again! But in a very positive way. Cities which got struck by the earth quake & tsunami don't look like they've been destroyed any more! (I haven't been to japan my only source for this are pictures from the internet and the documentary わ・す・れ・な・い ～東日本大震災155日の記録～which showed footage from those areas after 155 days). The footage from the documentary is old but you can use this as a very good source for seeing the strenght of those people.
I hope that noone in this world will have to suffer like this again and that someday no country has to use atomic power plants for energy.
みんなの日本人これからもがんばってください！

For those who speak german is this maybe quite interesting:
it's a review about the doku わ・す・れ・な・い ～東日本大震災155日の記録～
http://www.tabibito.de/japan/blog/2011/09/08/gut-gemachte-doku-155-tage-nach-dem-erdbeben/

First Post!

I'm Yas. I've learned japanese in high school and visited it for vacation two years ago and it's my dream to work there since then. After graduating I decided that I'll work as a volunteer abroad in japan.
This blog gives you an insight about the preparations and about my future life in Japan.

After a preelection they sent mails out wether you're in the program,or in the waiting list or not. I got the program but the people in Japan haven't decided if they want to take part in this programm again yet.
"The people in japan" are those from my preferred workplace. I wanted to stay in Ôsaka and especially work there in a Youth Hostel. Other places for the voluntary service could have been a kindergartens or nursing homes either in Ôsaka, Tokyô or Hiroshima.

I want to work there, because I've stayed in this Youth Hostel at my last japan stay and have a lot of friends in this area. This is another point, which hopefully makes it easier for me in japan. Having friends in Japan but also a friend from Germany who'll work at a nursing home very near to my workplace will make me feel at ease. (We will have a lot of fun together, because he's gay and we can get to know the gay areas together.)
A bad point about this is propably that I won't have the feeling of outland.

So yeah...I'm waiting right now for the organisation in japan to hopefully decide to take part in this project.