On the 3rd, when I went to Minamisanriku
to take part in the Jonet Salon, I left some relief supplies for the baseball
club of Shizugawa High School.
The members of the club were out
in the playground practicing on 11 March, when the earthquake struck. When they
heard someone shouting: “A tsunami is coming!” they headed towards the elderly
care facility, situated a bit lower from the school grounds. They helped the
elderly climb to Shizugawa High School by pushing their wheelchairs, holding
their hands, and carrying them on their backs.
Immediately after that came the
big tsunami, which destroyed the town of Shizugawa (Minamisanriku). The members
of the club, their supervisor and their families suffered from the disaster.
From the bottom of my heart I
wanted to help them.
But three days later there was still
no notice that the supplies had been delivered. Finally, today I received a call
from the people concerned and realized what’s going on: Presently, the school’s
gymnasium acts as a shelter, and there is a temporarily built facility in the
schoolyard. So the students go to classes at two different high schools.
A security firm, that let’s
neither the students nor teachers enter, guards the school. Only on weekends, have
they been given permission to enter the school grounds.
And that is why the supplies had
not yet reached the members of the club.
I should’ve given the guard a
better explanation that day.
“How nice it would be for the
supplies to have reached them at least before the preliminary match at the
Koshien (versus Iwagasaki High) on the 10th …” is all an aunty like
me could think about today.
High-school-baseball-fan Aunty
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