Let's keep our hopes up !

Day 6, (16 March) since the earthquake hit my country.
We all carry the same feeling inside of us.Yesterday, most of the train lines are reduced services or canceled, however I tried to reach Roppongi for my Japanese school. A lot of the students are living here away from home alone.so as a Japanese teacher, go to work and see their faces are what we can do. I thought I got to make them smile at least !

When I got to school, Some of the students have gone back to their countries already, and seems like more students are considering to go back, and I know that is also what they can do fo their people.

However more than half of the students in my class were there. I am relief when I looked their faces smiling. There were after shocks while in the class, they worried but It seemed like they were trying not too panicky. A student looked up to me and just nodded and smiled as if she said “It'll be ok !”

The students from Argentina, as soon as they got to school, found me and said “Were you okay?”and kept “We are the same feelings with Japanese people !”with beginner Japanese but very warm-heartedly.

It was definitely ME, who was helped and got smile from the students...

In the class, we discuss what we should do when the big earthquake happened again and what we can do for now...what it means to live in the presents. Workers,students,a person who protect their family... what it means to each of us do what we can do...

On the jam-packed train, without any words, I feel consideration,tenderness,humanness from people.The day Earthquake happened, when I walked to 5hours making my way to home, many people encouraged each other and exchanged the information each other. and Stores let us use their phone or toilet. Everybody cares each other and doing what we can, and face the reality.

Reflect on my self, on the life.
It's good thing if we save electricity on a routine bases no matter how the times are, but if we haven't lived that way, this time, we should face up to the our problems directly and should save electricity as much as we can, because that is least we JAPAN can do for the disaster areas. Since the Friday, we are having Candle night. It's the least we can do.

Now, we do what we need to do. Comfort what we should do. Be good to your family, partner,friends, your people, make a smile someone next to you, make peace around you, face up, look and speak to people with making eye-to-eye contact, keep smiling, behave positively and find calm as much as we can. that's what we can do.

To know the correct information. It's also what we can do.Ignorance is not going to be a soft pillow for me, Ignorance is powerlessness. I choose knowing, should know correct and needed information, so that I can think and enhance consciousness, think victimes, think our country. That is what we can do.

Now the world is with JAPAN. All the message from all over the world make my heart very warm and giving us a hope. Japan is not alone.It's just started, this is going to be long haul.　

A dozen thoughts crowded my mind. keeping busy with knowing what is happening in my country all day but because of this time, need to be calm as much as we could,hang in and keep having strengh, join our hands and hearts.

We JAPAN will hang in and survive !

My respectful alpinist Ken Noguchi said ''Knowing is carrying.''
I found a tweet of him, ''My office are reaseaching how we bring aid suppry all day long. There is something I can do ! and there are something you can do !! Now, For the victims, We all Japan carry what have happened and Don't give up ! Let's do our best ! ''

I feel up lifted when I read it.
We each of us carry, We all of us are carrying.
We won't give up !!
We'll stand up and smile !!
Let's keep our hopes up !!