Today is January 12. At 4:52 PM it will be a year to the earthquake. Most of the people will spend today in the church.
For a few days now we’ve been preparing for Jan 12 along side our day-to-day activities.
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| A church in the city. One year after. |
We were trying to find out what is being planned for this day (which is an official government day-off). The first response from the village committee was surprising. They said all everyone wants it to forget. They don’t want anything to remind them. Some of the teachers at the school thought this should be a day of celebrating life and not remembering the dead. Everyone that survived should be happy. Many people thought that having a ceremony or other activities on this day will be good for everyone. We tried very hard (maybe too hard) not to impose our opinions. We were directed a few times to talk to the pastors of the various churches as they were organizing prayers for this day. We ended up not preparing anything special and letting the pastors decide what to do. They decided to do a day long prayer. Some of the churches worked together and others did their own thing.
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| Village praying on the 12th |
We had a teachers meeting to prepare for school activities on the last day of school before the 12th. There was praying in the opening ceremony, teachers talked with the kids about their memories from the day and Inbal led an art activity. A picture is worth a thousand words. A movie?
Inbal is editing a movie of Jan 12 in the village. I will post it when ready.
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