{"id":242086,"date":"2016-12-08T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=242086"},"modified":"2016-12-08T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:00:59","slug":"japanese-hs-students-visit-mount-carmel-school-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/japanese-hs-students-visit-mount-carmel-school-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese HS students visit Mount Carmel School anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242088\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Japan-pix-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese high school students challenge Mount Camel School\u2019s female basketball school players during Ikuei Nishi High School\u2019s visit to Mount Carmel on Dec. 7.  (Michael T. Santos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mount Carmel School welcomed over 150 students from the all-girls Ikuei Nishi High School yesterday, making it Ikuei\u2019s second visit to the school.<\/p>\n<p>Students participated in an opening ceremony as well as games throughout the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Ikuei teacher Rika Shimodama said, \u201cWe really appreciate the hospitality of Mount Carmel School. It may be the second time our school has visited but the students participating are actually new ones. Ikuei\u2019s students have been preparing for a performance to show appreciation to the students here. I noticed how MCS acknowledged how hard they worked and I really like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A student at Mount Carmel, Waren Ellana said, \u201cThe visit today is pretty good. It\u2019s exciting to meet all of them and just getting to know more about how their culture differs from ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese students paid out of pocket for the trip to Saipan. However, many students such as Yuki Tsujimura expressed how happy they were about their decision to participate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Saipan, people are very kind to us here and we really like to travel overseas to see places such as this. The students are very interesting and whether or not they can speak Japanese, we can tell just how nice they are,\u201d said Tsujimura. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Japan, the Ikuei Nishi High School students don\u2019t really have much opportunities to interact with others from a different country but to come overseas and meet them in person it is a good chance to learn about a different culture as well as teach others our [culture],\u201d Shimodama said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Carmel School welcomed over 150 students from the all-girls Ikuei Nishi High School yesterday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14634,1111,14635,14636],"class_list":["post-242086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mount-camel-school","tag-mount-carmel-school","tag-rika-shimodama","tag-waren-ellana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}