Hudson Bay High School - Aquila Yearbook (Vancouver, WA)

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WATASI-II WA ANATAGA SUKIDESU ! The sisTer school program began wiTh lmabari MeiToku High School in 49841. Since ThaT Time, eleven Teachers and 37 sTudenTs from The Two schools have been involved wiTh The exchange program. There have been many be- nefiTs from The program for boTh schools. Hudson's Bay has received much publiciTy wiTh iTs program, boTh in Van- couver and across The sTaTe. Because of our sisTer school, we now offer Two years of Japanese language. Bay is also The only school in Van- couver To offer This course. The Teachers and sTudenTs ThaT have visiTed Bay in The sisTer program have assisTed in our Japanese class. For lvleiToku, The exchange program has also been auiTe beneficial. Being o privaTe Japanese Foreign Exchange I school, compeTiTion for re- cruiTing sTudenTs is keen. For mosT Japanese sTudenTs a visiT To America is a dream. Having a sisTer school in America ThaT can be used To enTice sTudenTs To aTTend lVleiTol4u provides addiTional moTivaTion for sTudenTs To aT- Tend our sisTer school. ln relaTionship To language, mosT Japanese sTudenTs learn English Through Transla- Tion and reading. Very liTTle conversaTional language is TaughT. lT is, Therefore, auiTe beneficial for lVleiToku To have American sTudenTs and Teachers aT Their school To as- sisT sTudenTs in learning English for conversaTional purposes. Besides all This, The sisTer school program has provided boTh schools wiTh a deeper undersTanding of anoTher counTry's culTure and iTs ways of life. lf such programs were developed in all of our schools, people would have a greaTer undersTanding and accepTance of people in oTher parTs of This world. -Dave HalsTead Principal WM Yuko Ochi Tries a liTTle American cooking. Top row, lefT To righT: ChinaTsu Emori, Nobu Ochi, Kazuhiro Tagashira, Fu- miaki Ochi. BoTTom row: lsami Ko- meda, Yuko Ochi, Yukiko Nanioo and Fuki OoTani. X i I

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People ore very friendly ond everybody is proud of Their schooll ,sdid Yoko lvldno of Chibd, Jdpdn. She sdid she liked This besT dbouT Boy dnd her decision To be- come on exchonge sTudenT wos bosed upon Americdn life seeming 'ld loT of fun . Yoko is known os d sofT spoken, guieT person. Her fo- voriTe closs wds Honor Choir for iTs mdny concerfs ond her love of singing. She hopes To remember her friends, her four hosT sisTers, dnd The foof- bdll gdmes. E f A Annie Timmermon from Denmdrk is d good person To hdve dround. She is olwdys in- Teresfed ond willing To pdrfic- ipdTe in sporTs, school ond fun dcTiviTies, sdid one of her friends. Annie mdkes people feel comforToble dround her ond she hos d good sense of humor. Her inTeresT in The Americon culTure wds noT only in The schools, buT dlso fdmily life. She closes wiTh,'il reolly hdd fun This yedr! l will never for- geT This. IT hos been o reolly big experience for me. .. - --V .5 .si . X .f . ,.k- . . .. .M -W. if . of s:'ls:f'Ti' Q f si, ..- -:lm was if -s - ,: :ff E .1-s ix s ss , T 3NS'f'sSS sisi N' Q' ' ' s ' ' .- lvlolin sTops for The comero before zooming on her woy. LeTicio Tokes o breoTher before re- suming The soccer gdme, He sTood shyly omong The crowd. His deep dccenT lin- gered in The dir ond his smile cdughT like OflC1lT1STO o con- dle. Who is he? They won- dered. He is Jose lvlugicd from Tvlddrid, Spdin. Jose liked his chemisTry cldss besT, porTIy becduse of iTs ldbs, buT dlso becouse The Tedcher is d very funny mon . Jose dlso enjoyed Ten- nis, which he pdrTicipdTed in df Boy. Jose soys,'lThis hos been d greoT yedr! Thonk you for hosTing me so well of Boy. 25 Foreign Exchonge STudenTs

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u,aWW Ms Hey! Walking in America is jusi like in Japan. J 77, ffl Two rnonlhs affer The Japanese For- eign Exchange sTudenTs arrive, jei lag siill lingers. Whai is ii wiih Americans always Tak- ing piciures, anyway? 27 Japanese Foreign Exchange