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Tanya Gardecky<\/a> (Miyagi<\/a>-ken, Shiogama-shi)<\/strong> is one of the\u00a020 Tohoku region JET alumni selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to return to their town<\/a> to both engage in volunteer efforts and also help document and share what\u2019s going on there.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s an excerpt from Tanya\u2019s latest post: \u00a0“Hi ho! \u00a0It’s off to school I go!<\/a>”<\/p>\n But when I went to the grade 3 classes the teachers changed it a bit and had some of the students mention their experience with the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. From what I understood, the students were very surprised by the earthquake and were confused about the tsunami. Some didn\u2019t believe the tsunami was happening or that it was that big, others simply had no idea what was happening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n JETwit will continue to post updates from Tanya and other participating alums<\/a>. \u00a0You can also follow Tanya\u2019s blog at\u00a0http:\/\/www.travelblog.org\/Bloggers\/ShiogamaJET\/<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to read other “Return to Tohoku”<\/a><\/strong> posts.<\/p>\n If you are returning to Tohoku and would like to share your updates, please feel free to e-mail jetwit [at] jetwit.com.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ****************** Tanya Gardecky (Miyagi-ken, Shiogama-shi) is one of the\u00a020 Tohoku region JET alumni selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to return to their town to both engage in volunteer efforts and also help document and share what\u2019s going on there. Here\u2019s an excerpt from Tanya\u2019s latest post: \u00a0“Hi ho! \u00a0It’s off to school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,305,378,369,304,282,368,132,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-cultural-outreach","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-japan-local","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism","category-volunteer","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t