I came prepared to give the junior high principal a copy of the Northview Middle School yearbook. I suggested he share it with the homeroom class that I visited. I also brought scrapbook pages that my students had made for the Japanese teenagers that I was about to meet. I was hopeful that my students might receive letters from the Japanese students. The Japanese teacher revised her lesson plans and let her class write the letters while I was there. So Northview kids....you hear that? I have letters for you! I also took a photo of the Japanese teenager holding your scrapbook page so you can see what the/she looks like. I can't post the photos on this blog, but I can show you their photos when I return to Northview. I hope you are excited because the Japanese kids were!

After writing the letters, the students did skits for me, taught me origami and games, and asked me questions in English. The highlight of the afternoon is when they sang for me. It brought me to tears and since it is bad manners to blow your nose in public I just had to do alot of sniffing. They were obviously very interested in learning about America and wanted to make me feel welcome. The experience could not have been any better.

It is now way past midnight and I have to go to bed. I will try to post some more blogs tomorrow morning before I head out for my homestay experience. All of the American teachers have been immensely impressed at what we have seen this week.