{"id":242214,"date":"2016-12-09T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=242214"},"modified":"2016-12-09T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:06:44","slug":"ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikuei Nishi students visit MCS for 2nd year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-242214 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-1\/'>ikuei-nishi-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242222'>\n\t\t\t\tMount Carmel School and Ikuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School students gather for a group photo. (Contributed Photos)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-2\/'>ikuei-nishi-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242223'>\n\t\t\t\tIkuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School students present traditional Japanese kimono dress.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-3\/'>ikuei-nishi-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242224'>\n\t\t\t\tIkuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School students demonstrate karate.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-4\/'>ikuei-nishi-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242225'>\n\t\t\t\tIkuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School students perform a \u201cninja\u201d dance.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-5\/'>ikuei-nishi-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242226'>\n\t\t\t\tIkuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School students prepare for their performances before the Mount Carmel School student body.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-6\/'>ikuei-nishi-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242227'>\n\t\t\t\tIkuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School students are all smiles before the welcoming ceremony.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ikuei-nishi-students-visit-mcs-2nd-year-row\/ikuei-nishi-7\/'>ikuei-nishi-7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242228'>\n\t\t\t\tMount Carmel School president, Galvin Deleon Guerrero, left, meets with Ikuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School  vice principal Akiko Yukawa, middle, and K. Inada, right.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>For the second year in a row, students from the all-girls school Ikuei Nishi Junior and Senior High School in Nara, Japan, visited Mount Carmel School. <\/p>\n<p>Building on the successful visit last year in October, the number of students jumped from 100 to over 150 this year. <\/p>\n<p>The day kicked off with a welcoming ceremony, in which representatives from each school gave opening remarks and students from each respective school performed for each other. After the ceremony, Ikuei Nishi students spent the day conducting mini-cultural presentations for all grade levels, as well as interacting with MCS students in games and activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ikuei Nishi vice principal Akiko Yukawa, they decided to come back to Mount Carmel based on a very successful visit last year. A<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe remembered your warm hospitality, and we wanted to come back to continue our wonderful relationship,\u201d Yukawa said.<\/p>\n<p>Ikuei Nishi teacher Rika Shimodama echoed Yukawa. \u201cWe really appreciate the hospitality of Mount Carmel School.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The visit proved to be another success, according to MCS student leaders. MCS Student Council president Zeno Deleon Guerrero said, \u201cThis year\u2019s visit was awesome, especially since they took the time to include and present to our elementary students. \u2026This also honored one of our school\u2019s Expected School-wide Learning Results, to cultivate respect and appreciation for cultural diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For MCS Student Council vice president Jacqueline Doctor, she appreciated the improvements in this year\u2019s visit. \u201cThere were more activities this year, helping us interact more.\u201d <em>(MCS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, students from the all-girls school Ikuei Nishi Junior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":242222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,14659,1181,1111],"class_list":["post-242214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-ceremony","tag-ikuei-nishi","tag-mcs","tag-mount-carmel-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242214","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}