Meet the Oak Ridge delegation for the 2005 visit to Naka machi.

Representing

Back Row (l-r):  Alpa Scarbrough (JMS Chaperone), Sherry O'Connor (COR),
Nancy Gray (ORNL), Harvey Gray (ORNL), Morgan Alexander, Alex Roorda,
Becky Colburn, Leigh Marlar (RMS Chaperone)

Front Row (l-r): Lauren Nettles, Kamry Clark, Mary Ann Aabye, Michael Singleton,
Will Kelly, Claire Campbell, Amelia Campbell

Not pictured:  James O'Connor (COR)

Japanese Lessons - watch for information and photographs as the team members learn about their host city and country:

Lesson 1

• JAPAN: Climate, Geography, History

  • Where is Naka machi? What is Machi? How old is this area?
  • What people do?
  • Some differences in doing , sleeping, eating, bathing,
  • Bathing, sense of outside and inside
  • Taking off shoes / putting on Slippers
• How to say in Japanese? You already know many Japanese words
  • They already know some English.
  • Some easy grammar to make your own Japanese sentences.
• Q and A

Japanese Food Tasting

Naka machi Program - Watch for a Daily Photo Journal of the Visit.

• On the way and Tokyo

• Arrival In Naka

• School Visits

• Japanese Culture

• Beach Excursion

• Students - At the Naka city hall to meet Deputy mayor,
  Chairman and Superintendent of board of education

• Delegation: At Azuhata hospital and
  at Tokai atomic energy research institute

• At the Naka city hall to meet Mayor

• At the assembly hall to meet chairman

• Visit Japanese old house “magariya” and experience traditional play

• Lunch at the restaurant

• At Naka atomic energy research institute

• At sizu shrine

• Drive around the city

• 15th Anniversary Celebration

• Farewell Party

• Depart for Tokyo

Personal Experiences by the Oak Ridge Participants