International Exchange Club

　　　Since publishing our school's homepage, we have received a lot of e-mail 
         from abroad, including requests for correspondence and questions about 
         Japanese school life. The International Exchange Club was established in 
         Nov. '96 to reply to the mail and represent our school. Now 13 members 
         (age11-12) are working every Tuesday with a teacher and a volunteer 
         translator.
         

　　　After reading mail from abroad, the members talk about it and answer 
         questions as necessary.  To avoid possible trouble, the correspondence 
         is done between groups, e.g. school to school or club to club, rather than 
         on a person to person, individual basis.  Since the club started we have 
         received more than fifty messages from several different countries.  
         A lot of mail has come from the U.S.A.  Each correspondence gives us
         interesting information that we can't get through TV or magazines here. 
         Other activities include introducing Japanese culture to children abroad.
         Recently we made some cards which explained some popular things in 
         summer here. We sent them to our sister school in Olympia, 
         Washington, U.S.A.