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Nearly 100 students from a local

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Japanese elementary school received an

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in depth look at life as an American

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student recently when they visited

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fifth graders at ARN elementary school

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on the US Army's Sagamihara family

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housing area . The Higashi Hadda

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elementary youth were welcomed with a

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musical performance by arm students .

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The visitors were then matched with arm

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students and started by asking each

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other a series of questions in both

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English and Japanese . After that ,

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they took part in various activities

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such as working together on drawings ,

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designing and building a computer

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program . Working a challenge to stack

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cups using only string , playing a

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musical game and much more .

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Su I'm ready . No .

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What kind of didn't know about that ?

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Knock on the door .

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It was pretty good . We both have like

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different rooms ish and our gyms are

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kind of the same but they have no

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heater . They have no hair in the , in

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the class . I was

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freezing . I think it's really fun and

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neat . We wouldn't be able to do this

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anywhere else . But here it's really

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fun to do that . Um I learned a little

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bit of Japanese language

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like some words like Nisso or sit

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some of those words . The American and

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Japanese organizers created the

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cultural exchange program to allow

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students to learn the importance of

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diversity and to build positive future

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relations between the students . It

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started with the American students

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visiting the Japanese elementary school

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in December . I

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want them to really enjoy the culture

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of exchange for our students learning

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more about Japan , learning more about

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the Japanese language and for the other

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school to learn more about the American

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culture and our American language . And

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at the same time , enjoy our time

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together for us , army garrison Japan .

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This is Tim flack .