Jamie
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Kyushu update – 5th and 6th of August – Lee san goes home!
09 months ago
Hi all.
Lee san has left the building! He has other commitments in Ishinomaki, so couldn’t stay here and play with us in Kyushu any longer. He worked here for 2 weeks, doing the same very physical work of guys half his age. Thanks for all the hard work buddy!
Our host Rene wanted to show Lee the sights in Aso (we hadn’t done any exploration of the beautiful scenery, just admired it on the way to and from work), so took us on a tour of the most famous site here, the volcano.
I don’t usually post pictures from off days (they would just be pictures of us sleeping), but these were too beautiful not to share. Please enjoy some of the beautiful sights Aso has to share!
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4th of August – MORE mud!
09 months ago
Today was another beautiful day!
I’m very happy to say that today we were joined by Mio, one of our volunteers who was with us for four months in Ishinomaki last year!
Below you can see a lot of pictures, but let me just talk about the mud for a moment. I’ve shovelled plenty of mud in my team, but today was the first time in a long time that i’ve shovelled really thick wet mud while standing inside it. Which sounds really specific. That’s how much mud I’ve shovelled!
It’s the type which makes a noise when you lift it up (kind of like a reverse squelch sound, if that makes ANY sense at all..). It’s very easy to get stuck in, I almost fell over a few times today (luckily, there were plenty of people around to point and laugh)! It also has the awesome characteristic of being a bit runny, which means that it gets onto your shovel handle. That, in combination to being quite heavy, significantly increases the chances of you (and by you I mean me) accidentally punching myself in the face when shovelling by quite a lot. Allow me to explain in more detail:
A lot of force is needed to lift the shovel when it’s full of mud (i’m talking about when the mud is in some kind of mud vacuum/black hole, regular mud diggers will know what I’m talking about) , and when the handle of that shovel is covered in mud and is slippery, and you’re wearing gloves, it’s really easy for your hand to slip off. And punch yourself in the face.
Enjoy the pictures!
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3rd of August – Kyushu update
09 months ago
The work in Kyushu continues. It gets pretty hot down here, so we have to be very careful not to dehydrate! Luckily we’ve been working indoors over the past few days, so we’ve had some shelter from the sun. There’s maybe one day of work left at Ino san’s house, tidying up stuff, and then we will move on, leaving lots of repair work to do for the builders who will come in once we leave. We took these pictures over the course of a few days.
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Because not everyone uses Facebook…
09 months ago
Hi INJM’ers!
We’ve been down in Kyushu for a while now, but there has been very few updates on the website! Sorry! It’s not that we aren’t doing anything, nor is it that we don’t want to let you know whats going on, rather it’s that it’s just so much easier to upload pictures and stuff on Facebook! No excuse, I know! We’ve found a great plugin (that’s a magical website tool to the less geeky) which allows us to easily show the photos we’ve been taking and share them on our website. We will add an additional page under our Kyushu relief operation, and update it regularly, as well as update our front page when we make updates!
Enjoy!
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