warden training

Today we did a full day of training at the embassy. It was interesting, being in a room full of Canadians. There's a certain perspective, when among your fellow countrymen, that's always absent even when among closely-related nationals (in my case, other native English-speakers).

The training itself was a lesson in terror. Apparently in the great earthquake that struck Kobe nearly fifteen years ago, it took more than a month for electricity to be restored, and it took weeks for water and gas service to be restored.

I had a couple of ideas about how to improve the organization of the work that wardens do in Japan. Specifically, I'd like to put together a wiki to allow all 65+ of the wardens in the country to create a manual for ourselves. Also, I want to explore the use of some sort of party phone line similar to what we use at the office when we've got an incident to deal with.