Saturday, September 1, 2007
We said goodbye to our Japanese guests tonight at the farewell dinner. The host families and travelers had a wonderful experience! The Japanese students will be leaving tomorrow for Chicago and then home to Japan.
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The Japanese visitors enjoyed their visit to Greenfield and Maxwell Middle Schools on Thursday. We finished the day off with a scrapbooking night! The travelers received scrapbooks as gifts from Sister Cities and were ready to put pictures in them! The books turned out wonderful.
Our travelers were excited to discover that they were featured in today's edition of the Greenfield Reporter. They felt like celebrities!
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
The students and chaperones had a great day at Greenfield Central High School yesterday. Today the travelers went to Mt. Vernon Middle School to paint a mural.
The mural turned out beautiful! We had lots of wonderful artists.
The travelers also visited Keihin today. They had a baseball themed lunch with hamburgers, hot dogs and baseball "goodie bags"! We finished the day off with bowling! I think the Japanese visitors were even better than their host families!
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Today the travelers visited the elementary schools. They had a lot of fun interacting with the students at Weston, Harris, JB Stephens and Eden!
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Our visitors have spent the day getting to know their host families. Boating, swimming, shopping, and the Colts game were some of the activities that they experienced!
We had a Thanksgiving style meal at the welcome dinner tonight. The food was delicious! Sayuri Tachibana played a piano solo. She is so talented and we were all impressed!
Friday, August 24, 2007
The visitors from Kakuda arrived safely and on time today! Everyone was very excited to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones!
Click here for a brief introduction to each of the travelers on this trip.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Here is the video of the students from Kakuda performing a song at the Welcome Dinner in Greenfield:
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Our friends from Kakuda City visited Greenfield Middle School on Thursday morning and discovered that middle school students are the same whether they live in Japan or Greenfield, Indiana! They love to eat and they love to play games! They started their day with a breakfast of bagels, muffins, doughnuts, and fruit and then moved on to participating in an 8th grade choir class. After choir class, they sketched human models in Mrs. Hall's 7th grade art class. Following art class, they played a very fun game of mat ball in PE class with another 7th grade class. Shota hit the very first "home run" Mr. Manning's PE class has ever had in that game! Our visitors enjoyed lunch with our 6th grade students and their GMS hosts. After lunch, the GMS hosts took their Kakuda City friends on a tour of Greenfield Middle School, visiting classrooms and talking with other students. Before leaving for an afternoon of games and snacks at Joy Stouder's house, our Japanese friends received gifts from the students and teacher of Greenfield Middle School.
Thursday night, our Sister City friends put together scrapbooks of their visit to Greenfield. They spent 2 1/2 hours pasting pictures and stickers in their scrapbooks so that they could share their experiences with family and friends in Kakuda City. Everyone enjoyed cropping their pictures and putting together their Indiana-themed pages. Thursday was a fun day for all!
