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| A bird's eye view of Sendai! |
As I said
before, I came here after the Great East Japan Earthquake which happened on 11th
of March 2011. It has been nearly one year from that day. But there was an
irony. The earthquake happened the day after my entrance exam and my
presentation. At that time I was totally shocked.
After the earthquake, I was reading and was watching terrible news about both tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. As all we know that media really likes sensational news. I know that but at that time you couldn’t be so sensible. So I was really confused.
Anyway, 1 month later the results were announced and I was selected as a student for Tohoku University International Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course for Graduate Education (IMAC-G), and the following month I was also selected as a scholarship student. But still I had that question “Is it safe for going Japan?”. With all that news, it was so hard to make a decision. I talked some people who were at Sendai. They said that it was okay to go Japan. Of course we talked a lot but in short they said like that. So with a long decision time :) I decided to come to Japan. By the way it was also one of my childhood dreams to go to Japan, because of Japanese cartoon and anime.
Now it has been more that 4 months since I came here. Up to now everything is really good. Of course there are some serious effects of earthquake and tsunami in Sendai. But I haven’t seen any building that collapsed during the earthquake. There are some buildings that are evacuated because these buildings have serious damage from earthquake, but nothing more, and I think it is just a safety procedure, and that’s all. Lastly, what I have seen that I can trust Japan :)
After the earthquake, I was reading and was watching terrible news about both tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. As all we know that media really likes sensational news. I know that but at that time you couldn’t be so sensible. So I was really confused.
Anyway, 1 month later the results were announced and I was selected as a student for Tohoku University International Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course for Graduate Education (IMAC-G), and the following month I was also selected as a scholarship student. But still I had that question “Is it safe for going Japan?”. With all that news, it was so hard to make a decision. I talked some people who were at Sendai. They said that it was okay to go Japan. Of course we talked a lot but in short they said like that. So with a long decision time :) I decided to come to Japan. By the way it was also one of my childhood dreams to go to Japan, because of Japanese cartoon and anime.
Now it has been more that 4 months since I came here. Up to now everything is really good. Of course there are some serious effects of earthquake and tsunami in Sendai. But I haven’t seen any building that collapsed during the earthquake. There are some buildings that are evacuated because these buildings have serious damage from earthquake, but nothing more, and I think it is just a safety procedure, and that’s all. Lastly, what I have seen that I can trust Japan :)
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| Red lanterns light up the Osaki Hachiman shrine in Sendai. |
Text and Photos by Mustafa
FGL FB/Blog Team