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114 Japanese students visit MHS
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Posted on Jan 13 2006
More than a hundred high school students from Japan visited the Marianas High School campus yesterday for a day of cultural exchanges and sports activities.
MHS welcomed the students from Kamakura Gakuen High School in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The 114 students were chaperoned by six faculty members.
The host school held a welcoming ceremony at the MHS Gymnasium early yesterday morning led by MHS principal Karen Borja.
The students were soon divided into groups to immerse themselves with local students inside the classrooms. Two classroom periods were allotted for the activity.
Students from both high schools mingled with one another, discussing subjects that ranged from academics to the common interests of the youth today. The two groups of students also had activities related to arts, cooking, and other cultural subjects.
The students then marched to the school cafeteria for lunch. Then they proceeded back to the gym for the sports program prepared by the host school. The two high schools played against each other in basketball, volleyball, and Rocball, the CNMI’s indigenous sport.
In the afternoon, the Japanese students and their counterparts from MHS assembled once more in the gym for the end of the one-day cultural exchange program.
The Kamakura Gakuen High School students are off to Managaha Island for an optional tour today. They are set to leave the island for Japan on Monday. (Marconi Calindas)
