I cannot help being taken aback by how fast time has passed since the start of the IE 3 class, as everyone says in this blog. Everyone has his or her own plan to do during this summer.
About four months have passed since the earthquake of the largest scale ever that will never escape from our memory occurred. Left with almost nothing to do after all the examinations have come to an end, I watched some videos concerned with the earthquake on the You Tube, some of which were way more realistic than what we are informed of by the media, including some pictures of the dead and videotapes in which many people were caught trying to run away from the stunami with some other people being even washed away. Watching them, I said to myself, "What can I do?" Donation? Of course. That is one of what we can do. But what else? I can think of Setsuden, saving electricity, and working as volunteer. By the way, I was moved, when Ryo, my IE 3 classmate, said that he did not use the airconditioner in order to save electricity. This is exactly what we can most effectively do for the inflicted people and regions. I do not use the airconditioner, either, with the exception of when it is especially hot. And I try to put the changes into the donation box when I buy something.
Working as volunteer is what I do not recommend, though I have raised that as an example of what we can do. When I worked as volunteer in my city in Fukushima just after the earthquake, there were a bunch of girls who participated in the programme and looked as old as I did then. I applied to that programme alone, but they seemed to have done it together. They were always together and talking with each other in spite of the presence of the sufferers just in front of them. I was very ashamed of them. Such people will no way recognise that they are mentally hurting the sufferers. They were not supposed to be there to make friends. I was very irritated by them whilst I was working.
So far, what we can most effectively do is to save energy. Let us save energy. If I think of how many people have been killed and how many people have lost their own houses and how many of them are still missing, I find no problem at all not using the airconditioner, turning it always off.
