I'm living in Kusatsu-shi, Shiga-ken for an undetermined amount of time and teaching English as a second language at a local high school. This journal is to document my experiences, thoughts, and to stay connected with others at home and abroad.

Monday, April 21, 2008

地球の日のため琵琶湖を掃除する活動:Cleaning up Lake Biwa for Earth Day


For those who don't know, International Earth Day is on April 22nd. In order to help celebrate this, I helped organize a group of ALTs here in Shiga to clean up a part of the shoreline in Nagahama, at the northern end of Lake Biwa (Japan's largest and dirtiest lake). As you can see, we had our work cut out for us, but in about 3 and 1/2 hours we collected 33 bags of most useless crap.




ご存知のない人々へ、世界中の「地球の日」という祝祭日は4月の22日(明日)です。この日を祝うため、滋賀県の英語指導助手のグループが集まってもらって、長浜市で琵琶湖の海岸を掃除する活動しました。琵琶湖は日本の第一大きくて汚れている湖です。見えるように、この活動は大変だけど、3時間半で、33個の袋を無駄なゴミで満たしました。




But seeing how much of an impact we could make with around 10~15 people in such a short amount of time was really uplifting. I'm hoping that we can make this a monthly thing, and that in the process other Japanese citizens will see us taking care of their (and our) home and begin to take more strict efforts to maintain the environment.






しかし、10〜15人で短い間で「あきらめるなと」思って頑張って、最後に出来るのは何よりだった!私は毎月同じような作業をしたいと思っています。そうしたら、他の日本人に見られて、私たちの「日本の環境を守ろう」という気持ちを身につけて環境にもっとやさしくなるかもしれません。

I have quite a few more photos from the event that you can see here on Flickr:
Biwako Clean-up: 琵琶湖を清掃

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