The brightly colored markers and the construction paper are ready. Stamps and stickers, prepped to be peeled. Scissors sit on piles of magazines spread out on the table.
A group of 16- and 17-year-old girls stand near the table in the Honolulu health clinic meeting room, waiting patiently for permission. Someone gives the OK, and they rush the table. Grabbing craft supplies like candy, they start to work.
The assignment: make a collage about how you are thinking or feeling. The problem: how exactly does a teenage girl feel after surviving an earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear crisis?