Our student travelers, along with members of the Greenfield community, are a week into their visit to our sister city of Kakuda, Japan!

The 2007 visit to Kakuda is underway, and chaperone Kim Kile has been blogging her trip for friends and family back here in Greenfield! “…all is going well in Kakuda! The Welcome Dinner was lovely and everyone did a great job with their speeches. It was so wonderful to see all of the students who […]

Today we went to Sendai for the day. We took the train and the subway to get there, which was a first for us. After taking a tour of the Miyagi Prefecture Capital building, we had lunch and then spent the afternoon shopping!! Tonight is our last evening with our host families and there have […]

We have had two very busy days. Wedensday we went to several elementary schools and were greeted by very enthusiastic students. The younger children were especially impressed with how tall that Tyler is. After visiting the schools we went to learn about making paper. The students seemed to enjoy the hands on activity and were […]

Today we separated in to three groups to visit various junior high schools. At the school I visited we played a game like hot potato with two English classes in order to give introductions of our names in English. We also had various other activites to help the Japanese students practice their English. I think […]

Today we gathered together again, after spending the weekend with our host families. We all had different activities over the weekend, but most of us spent some time at the ocean enjoying the beach. Saturday we had some sunny weather (it has been overcast and rainy here) so many of us also had barbeques. Our […]

After a very long flight, we made it to Narita Airport. The kids all handled the long flight very well. After a slight stop in Tokyo, we took the bullet train to a station near Kakuda, where our families met us, holding signs bearing our names. This was around 11:30 pm. Talking with the other […]

As the travelers make last minute preparations for their trip, we’d like to introduce the 2006 Travel Log. It will be updated when possible with news from the trip, so check back often!