{"id":31265,"date":"2013-03-28T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=31265"},"modified":"2013-03-28T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T04:07:42","slug":"tsunami-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=31265","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nit was a weird morning because when i woke up, i was expecting heavy rain. instead, it was a pretty amazing sunrise. dark, but unique. check out the sun rays beaming down on the ocean. cool!
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\ndiamond head looked really fun and clean. but i knew there was somewhere else better. i picked up Abe-san and Yuto-kun and we headed to surf a spot where not too many people were around. 3 surfers on the right, 3 surfers on the left, and just us in the middle. long wave after long wave. Abe-san hasn’t surfed for 3 years so he was enjoying himself. as for Yuta-kun, he tried to surf waikiki yesterday but couldn’t stand up. today, his dream came true. he surfed every wave perfectly!
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\nthen we went to have an italian lunch. this is where our conversation got very interesting. Abe-san and his family are from Ishinomaki. they lost their house from the tsunami and had to sleep in their car. no food for 3 days and the only thing keeping them warm was their dog. Abe-san has been surfing for 20 years but hasn’t since the tsunami. Abe-san’s lovely wife is from Kitakami. she attended the same kitakami elementary school that was demolished and lost a lot of its kids to the tsunami. her mother is living in the temporary housing right above the We Are One Market. OMG, i was so surprised! this family is survivors. Abe-san lost his car, his house, and almost everything. his surfboard survived. we had such a great talk and i really respect this family. i felt such a close connection from going to ishinomaki 7 times and know all the places they were talking about.
\nafter i dropped the Abe-san family off at their hotel, i was thinking of all the things that i seen with my own eyes in ishinomaki. there is still a pretty deep scar in my heart, but days like today are helping it heal. a wonderful family moving forward, surfers unite, and beautiful smiles again. after march 11th, my life has changed for the better. and as i see more happiness from the people who went through so much, i will appreciate life even more. today was just one of those days that made me feel like i have a dream life. it’s the experiences and smiles that make my life so dam good! i’ll be sleeping with a big smile on my face tonight.
\nTo the Abe-san family,
\nThank you for a wonderful day.
\nThank you for all the stories.
\nThank you for your strength.
\nAnd thank you for surfing with me.
\nKeep on moving forward, and Keep on Surfing!
\nAloha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

it was a weird morning because when i woke up, i was expecting heavy rain. instead, it was a pretty amazing sunrise. dark, but unique. check out the sun rays beaming down on the ocean. cool! diamond head looked really fun and clean. but i knew there was somewhere else better. i picked up Abe-san […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}