Friday, 25 March 2011

Thanks to YouTube, Japanese Students Know Their Families Safe


Once an earthquake measuring 9 in Japan rocked on Friday (3/11/2011) Last week, Japan's telephone networks immediately interrupted. All busy trying meghubungi relatives, friends, or colleagues in Japan, eager to know he was doing. But, alas, the phone is not too connected.

Akiko vocabulary, students from Japan who was studying at the University of California at Riverside, United States, have lost hope about the safety of his family in Minami Sanriku. Moreover, the village inhabited by about 17,000 heads of families reportedly have been destroyed, leaving many casualties as high as a result of ocean waves more than 3 meters.

Vocabulary for three days trying to figure out his family situation. New at day-4 post-disaster he received an e-mail that her sister, Yukiko, have been rescued and evacuated in a school. However, what happened to his parents, grandparents, and his brother who previously lived under one roof, he did not know.

Until finally he got the news from one friend who contact him about the existence of a video lasting about 45 minutes on the website YouTube which show that the family house vocabulary is the only house still standing among the ruins of the village. The video reportedly showed his brother was waving to the camera reporter, saying, "We all survived."

Vocabulary panic when a day of searching on the internet, but did not find the video in question. Relief finally came through an e-mail that you attach a video link from him.

"I think they do not survive. I cried for three days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday." he said as he sobbed in an interview with CNN, Tuesday (15/03/2011) night.

When watching the video for the first time in the rented house in Riverside, California, vocabulary surprising reaction of all residents. "I shouted, making the guard houses are built and make them think something terrible has happened. They asked what happened, I said, they survived!" he shouted.

In the video, vocabulary sister, Shoko 24-year-old, was standing on the porch of the second floor of his house, just outside the room vocabulary. He tried to attract media attention that brought a video camera and told please convey to his brother in California that his family was fine.

When interviewed, vocabulary is still trying to send messages through video and other media with the aim of delivering a message to Japan that he had received messages sent by his family. Vocabulary still have to see a video featuring her father's condition, Natsumi, her mother, Noriko, and her grandparents.

Vocabulary into the family home the only one who survived in the village of Minami since about 5 years ago his father build a new reconstruction that divides the house into two parts complete with the basement. Other houses in the village had been eaten by age and not renewed.

In a YouTube video which was a relief to look older vocabulary holding a placard with "FAMILY vocabulary" and shout "Because our brother was in America, please convey that we all survived."

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