It has been two months since my last blog entry. In the wake of the greatest natural disaster Japan has ever seen, it has been difficult to collect enough thoughts that can be articulated into words to describe what is happening to me everyday.
On March 11, 2011, one of the largest earthquakes of all time quite literally rocked Japan. It was so large that it moved the coast of Japan 10 meters and shifted the Earth’s axis. The devastation that followed was incredible. There was a massive tsunami that caused massive destruction in Sendai, and created a nuclear situation that more than one month later, has yet to be resolved. In spite of all this chaos, I have managed to form lifelong friendships with some of the most amazing people I have ever met. Not only were they there to share in this experience with me, but they were also there to help me through it. This experience has been crazy, to say the least. In Atlanta, there are no earthquakes or tsunamis or nuclear reactors. So to say it’s ironic that I came to Japan and all this happens three days later is quite the understatement. This catastrophe has certainly changed whatever experience I was going to have in Japan, perhaps even shapes it as it evolves daily.
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