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- [Lance Corporal Jonathon House] MC Perry 
Elementary School's faculty

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aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni

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played host to many school children
from Kubo Elementary School Wednesday

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as a part of a cultural exchange program.

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This program gave the children
an opportunity to experience

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a different culture and also share their own.

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- Well our sixth graders, our military kids,

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they understand that they 
live in another culture.

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But for them to be able
to experience it is

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something altogether beneficial
for them and for us.

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As ambassadors, they can

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promote that positive friendship,
that positive outlook,

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and that positive cohesion
between the two countries.

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And that's mainly what we want
our sixth graders to get out of this,

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is that their world, when they
graduate high school,

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is going to be very global and international.

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And for them to start making those
connections now and understanding

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how to relate and how to interact

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and how to promote our base

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and how positive our base is

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and the wonderful things that
are going on at our school,

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it benefits everyone.

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- [House] The students of MC Perry learned
about more that just being ambassadors.

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They also learned how to
break through the language barrier.

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- Well, I learned a lot of things,

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like how to make friends with other people,

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with the Japanese.

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And how to respect other people's cultures.

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And how to get along with other people

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who can't speak the same 
language as good as you can.

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So how to get along with them.

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And most of that is from

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just interacting with each 
other besides talking.

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So we did activities together.

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We played together, played (inaudible),
and that was pretty fun.

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- [House] Lance Corporal Jonathon House,

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Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan.