Hi from Sylvia. Mark asked if I'd like to blog this time, so here goes.
Friday night 6/10, we went to downtown Sapporo to see the Yosakoi out-door dance competition. This amazing dance phenomena is like a half-time show in a football game in the US, but the music style is a fusion of traditional Japanese folk dance with modern hip-hop, and done by teams of about 50 - 100 young adults dressed in traditional Japanese clothes.
Mark, Mike and I flew from Hokkaido back to Tokyo around noon Saturday 6/11 and met up with our 4th team member, David Wyatt, who flew from Seattle to Narita. Then we met up with 2 leaders from the TouchGlobal / PC-USA disaster relief team partnership that we'll be working with this next week. We drove 30 minutes from Narita to a Very, Very Old, Mildewy small Japanese house that appears to have been empty (un-lived-in) for a long time in the middle of nowhere's-ville Chiba just for overnight. I was worried (unnecessarily) cockroaches would be scurrying over us…
Today, Sunday 6/12, we drove 6 hours up to the Sendai area, and have arrived at the Takayama Guest House in the Shichigahama area. It's been 3 months since the disaster, and it's so appalling. Mark says much of this area looks cleaned up, but it sure looks to me that LOTS of work has to be done. This evening we'll meet up with the Gilberts, the missionary family who is moving into the Ishinomaki area and our primary contact family here.
Really looking forward to getting started on our relief and recovery work tomorrow!
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