Although it was the end of September, the scorching heat of the sun bit our skin. I was sure that my skin would be tanned. On top of this severe condition, we gradually became bored from routine volunteer works. We were assigned to do the same task at the same place on the second day.
Our mission was to sweep and gather the massive debris. I was wondering why the local govenment officials did not use bulldozer so that they could get rid of everything so smoothly. Even how hard we dug up the ground, small pieces of glasses and nails appeared endlessly.
When we felt tired from unchanged condition, the house owners surprisingly visited us while we were cleaning the ruined house. They gave us a lot of thanks and plenty of refreshment as gifts. The owners were in their sixties and they were not living with their children when the tsunami hit them. As we felt our activity could directly help the affected people, their visit highly motivated us so much that we could finish removing all scraps as quick as flash.
On the way to the volunteer center, I've heard from one of the volunteer staff at Shichigahama the reason why we thoroughly extracted glasses and nails from the ground. They and local offical have already understood that Bulldozer could easily scrap and clean the ground, but after they brought to the final repository site, workers at the site were accidentaly injured their body by the broken glasses and nails, consequently their works got inefficient and dangerous. It possibly cost them more to be safe and efficient, so the local offical requested volunteers to get rid of the dangerous debris as much as they can. I found that our task really helped people in Tohoku.
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