"Dear LHS Performing Arts Families,
There are two opportunities available for hosting students
from Japan coming up here at the end of March. One is for a Japanese
University student who is here studying English at ACC who will need hosting
from Sunday evening March 24th through Monday morning April 1st. The
following is a note from M.E.M. Travel who is the coordinating organization for
hosting this student:
The situation has not changed, the host family he is staying with
will be out of town the very last week of Aki’s two months stay in
Denver. So if your student’s family is interested, it will be great if
they could host him from
the evening of March 24th, Friday through Monday monring April 1st.
( he will be leaving April 1st.) As for taking him to the airport Monaday
morning, someone from our office will pick him up and take care of that.
He is a very polite Japanese University Student, and he is having a
great time so far! (He arrived on February 1st.) I went to the Denver
Brass concert at DU Newman Center last weekend and since the family lives close
to DU, I asked Aki and Aki’s current host family if they would like to join me,
and they did. Attached is a photo of Aki and his host family.
Again, please feel free to give my email address or phone number 303-748-2071 if
the family wants to ask me questions.
Thank you for your help Don!
Hiroko
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Hiroko Takeyama ☆ 竹山博子
M.E.M. Travel, Inc.
1209 19th Street, Denver, CO 80202
TEL: 303-295-1300
FAX: 303-295-2705
E-mail: hiroko@memtravel.com
Web: http://www.memtravel.com
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Hiroko Takeyama ☆ 竹山博子
M.E.M. Travel, Inc.
1209 19th Street, Denver, CO 80202
TEL: 303-295-1300
FAX: 303-295-2705
E-mail: hiroko@memtravel.com
Web: http://www.memtravel.com
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The second opportunity available for hosting students from
Japan is from Thursday afternoon/evening March 21st to Sunday Morning March
24th. We need host families for 24 students coming from Japan as part of
the mutual exchange of the Kizuna project that we were selected to participate
in. As many of you are aware, LHS was selected to participate in the
Kizuna Project which involves sending 23 students from LHS as cultural and
musical representatives to Japan into the areas affected by the Great Eastern
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred in Japan on March 11,
2011. From March 3 - 16, 2013, our students are scheduled to travel to,
interact with, perform for and learn from the residents and schools in Sendai,
Japan, an area that was severely affected by the Earthquake and Tsunami.
The final phase of this project is that we host 24 students from Japan
here in Littleton, CO for 3 days on March 21 - 24.
If you are available and willing to host a student from
Japan, please follow the instructions below to enroll online through the
Laurasian Institute (located in Seattle, WA) who is the coordinating and
sponsoring organization for this hosting exchange.
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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
"The goal of the Kizuna Project is to not only forge
intercultural ties and exchange between American and
Japanese students, but
to also expose our American students, and through them, their own
communities,
to the reality of the Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the
ongoing reconstruction efforts. While
the Japanese students are coming to
experience American culture and daily life, they are also required to
share
with the public at large their own experiences of the disaster and
reconstruction efforts. They have
been preparing a presentation for your
students and broader community about their experiences and the
current
situation in Japan."
The students from Japan will arrive at Littleton High
School on the afternoon of Thursday, March 21st.
They will need to stay
in your homes that evening and then the Japanese students will attend classes
with
our LHS students on Friday, March 22nd. During this school day,
they will give their presentations about
their experiences of the Great
Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. On Friday evening, all Japanese
students and their host families are invited to a reception to be held here
at the LHS Cafeteria. This
reception will feature many members of the
Japan-American Society from Denver, the Consul General to
Denver from Japan
as well as other guests. Your attendance is highly desired.
Saturday is your day to
spend with your student from Japan as you
desire. The Japanese students will then need to be here at
LHS early
Sunday morning in order to board a bus and travel to DIA to board their
flight back to Japan.
I am hoping that many of you are able to take advantage of
this International Hosting opportunity. I know
that several families
have already registered to host a student from Japan, we are still in need of
10 more
families.
Thank you very much for what you do for the LHS Performing
Arts.
Sincerely,
Don Emmons, Instrumental Music Director
Littleton High School
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