Welcome to the Gun Show!!

Here's the gang showing off their muscles for the camera. It is so fun to see these Highschool students who take themselves too seriously (cool) have such a good time with silliness!

So, my friend Cathi asked if there would be a true "exchange" of students. The plan is that Nolan will be going to Tokyo with Frank in February.

Last summer, Frank received a Department of Defense contract to teach teachers in Japan and Germany. So our plan has been to send Nolan with him to Japan. We then learned that Nolan's sister school was in Kyoto (famed Kyoto Peace Accord) just 2 hours by train from Tokyo. Since Frank will be training for three of the days that they are there, we have been investigating just what Nolan could do with himself. We went and discussed the possibilities with Nolan's school and they said... We can do you one better!! Please keep two students and get to know them and then you can go and see them. Better still, there is an english teacher at their school that is from Modesto. So he will have ready made contacts.

(okay, now all the boys are jumping into the icy pool to cool off and impress each other!!)

Comments

Cathi said…

Impressive guns there! : )
So, will Nolan be staying with these two boys?
It's great to see your blog so active : )
Cheers to you and yours!

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