Dear LHS Band Parents,
We have the opportunity to host students from Japan again in our homes at the end of March. The students, Juniors and Seniors in high school, are scheduled to arrive here at LHS on Thursday, March 21st. They will need to stay at your homes Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday night, March 21, 22, and 23. The students will then meet on Sunday morning at LHS to get on a bus and head-off to the airport.
If you are able to host, please follow the instructions below that I received from Sherine Ibaraki from the Laurasian Institute in Seattle, WA who is responsible for coordinating this event.
Thank you so much for your help.
Don Emmons, Instrumental Music Director
Littleton High School
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Hello Mr. Emmons,
I just wanted to check in with you regarding hosting for Kizuna Tour in March.
Would you mind starting the applications for the students that are coming from Japan.
The students will be arriving from Tohoku Technical College in Japan. [These are high school students in their last 2 years of high school]. You will have 18 boys and 6 girls and 2 male chaperones.
The students will be arriving in Littleton at 2:23 PM on March 21st. They will be departing on March 24th at 11:19 AM. We will organize a coach bus for them to pick them up at the airport and also on the departure day. Ideally we want the students to arrive at the airport atleast two hours prior to the departure. So I would say if the host families can bring the students to the school as a gathering spot the bus can pick them up at the scheduled time depending on how far the airport is from the school.
Patrick has told me that you are confident in hosting so we really are happy to hear that. I look forward to working with you in making this a memorable and inspiring event for the students in your school and the Japanese students. Please have the families start the applications. We do need to send all the matched up lists to Japan in the middle of February. Thank you.
1) The Host Family Application: All host families must complete the application. It can be completed at the following link:
https://laurasian.wufoo.com/forms/s7x2z7/
Please inform your host families that they have to finish the entire application in one sitting as they cannot pick up from where they left off if they did not finish it. Please mention that they will need to either be able to write a short introduction and welcome message or have one ready to paste. Also needed will be one to two photos that they can upload to the application. If they do not upload a complete application, it will be deleted and will not count. Also, only list household members who will be in the house at the time of the visit. We do not need information about children whom are off at college.
2) The Background Check: Each member of the household who is 18 years of age or older must complete the online background check. This is absolutely non-negotiable. We do not need background checks for anyone under the age of 18. Anyone who will be residing in the home at the same time of the visiting student must submit to the background check as well. The check is performed by IntelliCorp using their VolunteerPortal service, which instantly reports the results to TLI. Another good feature of this service is that we will never have to store or see anyone's social security numbers, making this method safer.
Each applicable family member must visit the following link and use the corresponding password in order to complete the background check:
Website: https://kizuna.volunteerportal.net/Welcome.aspx
Password: TLIKizuna