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Sunday, March 24, 2002 |
 So much for the weekend (again.)
I have to go in to the office for a sokokai- a meeting to send off the five high school students who are going to England for two weeks.
If I were going abroad for two weeks- and not just as a tourist, but to do a homestay- then I'd be excited- or nervous, perhaps- but I know I'd be feeling something. So why does it seem that the children who go on this study tour are so devoid of emotion concerning their trip to England?
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Today is exactly one year from the Geiyo Jishin, the large earthquake centred in the Hiroshima area.
I always thought that people saying that they remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard of J.F. Kennedy's assassination were exaggerating, but after last year I think that such memories are indeed possible. I remember that I was just installing Mac OS X on my computer when the earthquake struck, and my house turned into something out of a ghost film and CDs started flying around.
Three things that I shall never forget. The absolute and overwhelming feeling of helplessness, powerlessness. The length of an earthquake; it doesn't just come and go, it passes through. Finally, the sound. Earthquakes make a noise, a low bass that really does sound like it's coming from the bowels of the earth. Even now sometimes, sitting here in the graveyard quiet of the Washibe small hours, the same noise- as a car passes, for example- can still send shivers down my spine.
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