"Dear LHS Band Parents,
As many of you know from our last Band parent meeting, we have the
opportunity and privilege of hosting a group of students coming from Japan
to Denver/Littleton this August. The students will arrive to LHS on Friday
afternoon, August 10th and will depart on Monday morning, August 13th.
Students would therefore be housed in your home on Friday evening August 10
through Monday morning August 13th. Some preliminary plans for the weekend
include having all of the host students and their host families joining us
at Sterne's Park on Friday evening to watch the LHS Drumline perform in a
LPS District Drum-off with the drumlines from Arapahoe and Heritage High
Schools. Then on Saturday, we would get together at the Park by Pirates
Cove for a picnic, some games and creek-walking. On Sunday, we will have a
farewell party get-together and the students would leave from LHS at the
beginning of our Band camp rehearsal on Monday morning.
If you choose to host, you will need to provide your Japanese students
breakfast each morning as well as lunch each day, dinners will be taken
care of through our different events during the weekend.
These students are joining us as they are here to experience our culture
here in the United States. They have a strong desire to practice their
English skills in a live American setting and they want to meet high school
students in America and see what it is that you experience here in American
public schools.
The Littleton High School band program was selected to host these students
because of our relationship with Takayama Japan as well as the very
positive experience that we had hosting students from Takayama in 2007.
We have a need of 13 families to host students. Here is the list that I was
sent:
1. SGL - Male / 16 (High school - 1st.)
2. SGL - Female / 17 (High school - 2nd.)
3. DBL - Female / 13 & 15 (Junior High - 2nd. & 3rd.)
4. DBL - Male / 13 & 13 (Junior High - 1st.)
5. DBL - Female / 13 & 14 (Junior High - 1st. & 2nd.)
6. DBL - Female / 13 & 14 (Junior High - 2nd.)
7. DBL - Female / 13 & 13 (Junior High - 2nd.)
8. DBL - Female / 13 & 14 (Junior High - 2nd.)
9. DBL - Female / 13 & 15 (Junior High - 2nd. & 3rd.)
10.DBL - Female / 14 & 15 (Junior High - 3rd.)
11.DBL - Male / 14 & 14 (Junior High - 3rd.)
12.DBL - Male / 14 & 15 (Junior High - 3rd.)
13.DBL - Male / 12& 14(Junior High - 1st. & 3rd.)
Please let me know if you are interested in hosting students from Takayama,
Japan in August.
Thank you,
Don Emmons, Instrumental Music Director
Littleton High School
demmons@lps.k12.co.us
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