tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post808548566138417137..comments2024-03-29T00:37:54.787-07:00Comments on Alienated in Vancouver: Japan and the EarthquakeAllan MacInnishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-84394569927997638912011-03-13T23:13:01.681-07:002011-03-13T23:13:01.681-07:00Wow - that's horrible, death upon death. All ...Wow - that's horrible, death upon death. All of this is well beyond easy comprehension - nothing at all comparable has happened to me, and to try to imagine 10,000 dead - as the current figures have it - is staggering. I donated $100 via the Red Cross, and spent half an hour or so going through old email addresses from students and coworkers I knew in Japan, trying to say hello; all have long since changed, however... It's tempting to let life go on, since I can't afford to donate more and can't exactly leave my ailing Mom to fly to Japan to "help" - but it doesn't really feel like enough. I wonder what things are like at the school I worked at? (Lot of Japanese students there...).Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-54418766872247970392011-03-13T22:39:50.390-07:002011-03-13T22:39:50.390-07:00Third attempt! Blogger hates my google account si...Third attempt! Blogger hates my google account sign in, by the looks of things ...<br /><br />There are a large number of Japanese families here waiting for bodies to be identified - an English language school collapsed in the Christchurch quake. I've heard many of them are from northern Japan. I can't begin to imagine how it is for them.<br /><br />Maybe some were spared by being here.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16572702350690627487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-75980762563216375632011-03-12T09:23:47.457-08:002011-03-12T09:23:47.457-08:00Hey, Min! Long time... no, I'm okay, safely in...Hey, Min! Long time... no, I'm okay, safely in Maple Ridge, an hour outside of Vancouver, where I've been looking out for my Mom (she's had a stroke and needs a bit of help). She's very glad I'm not in Japan anymore. Apparently Saitama isn't so bad - it was frightening for people, and there was at least one death there, but the real destruction is further north. Still - there are probably all sorts of students from that region in Vancouver right now - they must be terrified...Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-14484077611619806112011-03-12T00:25:48.865-08:002011-03-12T00:25:48.865-08:00You're the first person I thought of when I he...You're the first person I thought of when I heard about the quake.<br /><br />Hope the areas you're familiar with haven't been hit too hard.<br /><br />My partner is from Christchurch. It's numbing watching places where he grew up all reduced to landfill.<br /><br />MinUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16572702350690627487noreply@blogger.com