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This past weekend we were able to help out with the High School Speech Contest that was held during the Tokiwa School Festival. 14 students from the surrounding high schools participated in the event and to my surprise were all talented when it came to English. Many had practiced for months after entering the contest back in July and the subject content of their speeches were intelligent and well thought out. In fact, a couple of the contest winners were actually our Conversation Partners from Tokiwa High School.
This is Chihiro. She's a first year high school student at Tokiwa High and the 3rd place winner of the contest. Chihiro is also my EC partner.
All of the Study-Abroad students in their best business wear.
Tokiwa High School Students
Clay Bussinger was a judge for the English Contest as well as our professor at Tokiwa.
Yuji and Mayu, Tokiwa Students and volunteers for the speech contest.-----
The next day we were able to actually attend the school festival. I felt that it was almost completely different from something like the "Welcome Back week" held during the first week of Fall Semester at CSUN. There was an overwhelming sense of community as each club or 'circle' were all competing with one other, selling different food or drinks but at the same time, all very proud to call Tokiwa home.
Tea Ceremony held by the the 'circle'
A couple of the different vendors
Cosplay Event
Tokiwa's dance 'circle'-----
It was great to experience something like this even though I am not actually a Tokiwa student, I felt as though I was really apart of bigger than myself. Bigger than just being an exchange student, but a friend, and an equal among the other students here at Tokiwa.-Kristin Van De Yar
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