{"id":21470,"date":"2011-09-15T00:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21470"},"modified":"2011-09-15T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:56:46","slug":"jet-alu-returns-to-minamisanriku-with-charity-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/15\/jet-alu-returns-to-minamisanriku-with-charity-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum returns to Minamisanriku with charity funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jen Wang (Miyagi, 2008-09)<\/strong> created the alias “Hibari-sensei”<\/strong> for her Japanese pop culture blog, <\/em><\/em>Gaijin Teacher Otaku<\/a><\/strong>, after her students called her by the name of a character she cosplayed. She also writes for J-music website <\/em>Purple SKY<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Canon Purdy<\/strong> (Miyagi, 2008-10)<\/strong> made headlines when Today<\/em>‘s Ann Curry found tracked her down after the earthquake and tsunami hit Minamisanriku, where she was visiting former students. She then started up Save Miyagi<\/a> to help the students she had once taught. NBC Bay Area did a follow-up report<\/a> on her trip back to Minamisanriku in late August, where she handed over the 300 thousand yen (roughly $3500) she raised to the board of education.<\/p>\n

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Photo from the Save Miyagi blog<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jen Wang (Miyagi, 2008-09) created the alias “Hibari-sensei” for her Japanese pop culture blog, Gaijin Teacher Otaku, after her students called her by the name of a character she cosplayed. She also writes for J-music website Purple SKY. Canon Purdy (Miyagi, 2008-10) made headlines when Today‘s Ann Curry found tracked her down after the earthquake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"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":[378,133,318,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-fundraising","category-jets-in-the-news","category-volunteer"],"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