Canadian RI-YEP Teen returns from Japan a 'changed person'
Posted by John Borst
on Mar 29, 2011
Hastings, Ontario youth recounts horrors of earthquake
Editor's Note: Normally, I would put this story "In The News" column but given the importance of the event, I thought it best to make a feature story.
By Mark Hoult of the Community Press
Hastings — At first the tremors were light, and Peter Franken didn't pay much attention. Small earthquakes happen almost every day in Japan, something the 17-year-old Rotary International exchange student learned to accept with equanimity soon after arriving in his host country in late August of last year.
Franken was sitting in a school room studying and listening to music at about 2:15 p.m. March 11 when he noticed the tremors.
"I looked over at the door, and I could see it shaking," Franken said during an interview at his home in Hastings last week. "So I'm like, OK, so we're having an earthquake, it's no big deal, it's a little earthquake, it happens almost every day."
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