Kizuna Day at Memorial HIgh School Eau Claire, Wisconsin!

We made the Kizuna Day at Memorial High School Eau Claire, WI.

Here is the 5 minutes all about  Kizuna Day documentary by Sydney Wolfe.

 Station #1, Memorial Japanese 4: Sharing personal stories. Sam and Aiyzah told the story about Ms. Omiya. She was a survior of the tsunami. She said "After the nine-meter-high tsunami has swept through, everything has been wiped out." She lost many of her friends due to tsunami. 

Station #2, Memorial Japanese 3: Documentary Film. Megan and Leah H. did a great job to share the tsunami doumentary.They explained that the first day after the disaster, the survivors didn't receive any food until the next day at the supermarket, when bananas and 1 onigiri (rice ball) per person, with no electricity. There was also no supply of clean water so they collected water from the rain, toilet tank, and over the hillside. 

Station #3, Memorial Japanese 2: Recovery efforts. Grant, Ray and Nathan explained about the reconstruction process. "In Higashi matsumashi City, more than 1,000 residents lost their lives in the tsunami, and 28 people are still missing. 5,499 houses were totally destroyed by the disaster. Everyday they check for those missing people. Along with that is the debris afer the tsunami. With so much debris it was as tall as 3 meter, taller than electric poles, before they started to create a place to collect and sort the debris. There was 1.65 million tons of debris. 3.8 million ton of soil was also collected at the debris site. Instead of burning the debris they decided to recycle it. The remaining debris that couldn't be recycled was burned instead."

Memorial Seniors! Also great leaders for this trip.  Arigatoo gozaimasu.

                                                Kizuna Banquet  at 3:00 
We shared our memories and thoughts about on Kizuna Trip. A big thank to Fukiko Lokken (Victor’s mom) for providing a very tasty Japanese treat. Here are Kizuna banquet menu "Deep Fired pot Stickers "　（あげきょうざ）"”pork cutlets deep fried on stick"(串カツ）　”デイジークッキ−”  At the end we all get our Kizuna 2013 DVD by Roman. 

あげぎょうざ

Preparation for Kizuna project at Memorial High School

Megan's Design, Kizuna day Banner. Victor, Alex, Nathan and Sydney helped paint

Put this up at Cafeteria. Hope many students come to see our presentation.

Sheyengphia, Foua, and Leah N created Kizuna photo show in front of library at Memorial High School

This is the letter written by Sam to all teachers, asking them to bring their students to the presentation.

Dear Teacher,

      We are writing you on behalf of all the students who went to Japan to participate in the kizuna trip back in March (Kizuna meaning "bonds of friendship" in Japanese). We had a good time there and we learned a lot. Now, we would like to share what we have learned with the school. We will be hosting an event we have dubbed “The Day of Kizuna” in the little theater on Friday, May 24^th periods 1, 2, and 5 (since all the other hours have other large events interfering with them). The event will be similar to Amnesty International’s yearly walk through presentation, however we will be talking about Japan’s major disaster two years ago. We are asking you to bring your classes down to see what we have to show since that will allow us to reach the largest audience possible. We understand that this is very short notice and we are very sorry, but we are all very passionate about what we have to tell. We all sincerely hope that you will help us achieve our goals and even learn some interesting things yourself when you come with your classes. Thank you very much and we hope to see you on the 24^th!

Sincerely

-Kizuna

See you all tomorrow for the Kizuna Day at  Memorial