After an extra-long travel day to arrive in Indianapolis, our guests from Kakuda enjoyed an activity-filled nine-day visit to Greenfield.

We said goodbye to our Japanese guests tonight at the farewell dinner. The host families and travelers had a wonderful experience!

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 […]

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 […]

Today the travelers visited the elementary schools. They had a lot of fun interacting with the students at Weston, Harris, JB Stephens and Eden! Photo Gallery

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 […]

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.

Here is the video of the students from Kakuda performing a song at the Welcome Dinner in Greenfield: More pictures from host families continue to be posted in the photo gallery, check it out!

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 […]

Ayaka and the Vetters family have been enjoying our time together. On Sunday we went to church where she saw a Catholic Mass, then went to Mozzi‘s Pizza for a traditional Sunday lunch. We introduced Ayaka to dessert pizza, a Greenfield staple. The Murat Circus was our next endeavor, and Ayaka got to see tigers […]

March 3, 2007 Well, after five flight changes, the Kakuda visitors finally arrived on Saturday at 5:00. The reception at the airport was exciting as each host family waved a sign to indicate which student they were searching for. Once everyone was accounted for, it was a rush back to Greenfield to Victory Christian Church […]

After a very long trip, our Kakuda friends arrived safely this evening around 5pm. We were so glad to see them! The welcome dinner was planned for this evening, so everyone went directly from the airport to Victory Baptist church where the Hensley family and the congregation graciously hosted a wonderful dinner. Everyone enjoyed the […]