Visit to Tohuku

Today is the 8th day of our Tokyo programme. We went to a visit to tohuku today. It was a land which got devasted due to the earthquake and tsunami and thousands of people died in the same. We were lucky to attend the oysters festival which happened today and volunteered for such a international social work. We set off for our journey to tohuku last night at 10.50PM. Before that we the students of chowgule college were divided into 5 groups in which we had to work along with the students of Waseda University. We reached the place at 5 in the morning where we collected our breakfast. From 7 to 7.20AM we had the karakuwa  tour in kesennuma city- isaribi park. It was a heavenly beautiful place with scenic beauty covered in water and trees.

We arrived at the karakuwa elementary school for the volunteering activity and preparation of the festival at  7.30AM. We were given instructions on what ought to be done incase of tsunami. From 8 to 2 we all were busy into the work assigned to us according to our groups.

Group 1: supporting event head quarters
Group 2: grilling and serving oyesters
Group 3: coming and serving swordfish curry and fish bony soup
Group 4: spring and managing performance stage and placing microphone
Group 5: patrolling festival site,  reporting accidents to event head quarters and keeping who station.

The most interesting experience was to taste the half raw grilled oysters. The place was covered with people and the lines for food stalls. Everyone seemed so happy. There were several stage performances which many people performed and entertained the locals. Towards the end by 2PM all the cleaning up work and replacing desks and chairs was done. By 2.30PM we departed from the place back to idabashi and the bus dropped is right outside our youth hostel by 10.30PM.