4-H and You:
The Combination to Unlock the Future
June 19-22
Cost $120.00
Registrations due: May 5
Highlights of the week:
Will your county/city be recognized for having at least 10 participants? We hope so!
(Dorothy Freeman)
Some of you may be interested in these grant opportunities. Let me know if I can help.
Conference designed especially for 14-18 year olds.
May 5-7, 2000
Cost $50.00
Southwest Virginia 4-H Educational Center
If you would like to be able to answer these questions and more, then you should attend the 1st Annual Teen Leadership Conference. Designed with teens in mind, the program will focus on leadership skills that can be used in a variety of environments including camp, club meetings and just everyday life.
The conference is loaded with great hands-on workshops, special presentations and lots of fun.
A schedule is attached or contact safishe3@vt.edu for more details.
(Sandra (Sam) Fisher)
CWF is scheduled for July 9-15. Cost for the week ($658.00) includes tuition, lodging, bus transportation and a live play with dinner. Virginia delegation will reside at the National 4-H Center, Chevy Chase, Maryland for the week. Civic clubs are prime sponsors for Virginia's youth, especially local Ruritan organizations. More details are included in the December99 4-H Information Letter or call Rudolph Powell or Tracy Downey, extension secretary at (804) 524-5965.
(Rudy Powell)
Important dates to remember:
May 20, 2000 - 5pm - Virginia 4-H Benefit Auction, Norfolk, Va, Marriott
September 22, 2000 - Virginia 4-H Benefit Golf Tournament, Draper Valley Course
(Martha McCollum)
Attached is a list of ABO delegates needing host families July 24-August 20. Hosting a LABO student is a wonderful experience. Please get in touch with Judy Ann Fray at (540) 948-4220 or email jfray@ns.gemlink.com if you know of families interested in hosting.
(Judy Fray)
The 4-H Big Tree Program will be the focus of Virginia's National 4-H Week celebration, Oct. 1-7, 2000. 4-H members will be encouraged to search for big trees and report them over the Internet to scientists at Va. Tech. The biggest trees and their nominators will be listed on the Virginia 4-H County List of Big Trees. Educate yourself by visiting the web site at
http://www.fw.vt.edu/4h/bigtree/index.htm
Photocopies of this site are included in the attachment section of this letter.
(Jeff Kirwan)
Move Over World -- Promotion Posters
are now available at the Distribution Center. The publication number is 388-583. These have been altered a little, and the Virginia 4-H Website address has been added. I encourage you to order these new posters to promote your 4-H programs.
(Donna Hamm)
Don't forget about this new contest. Each unit may submit one entry in each the junior, intermediate and senior category. Review the website for guidelines.
Picture This: A Photo Taken By One Of Your 4-H Photography Project Participants IN PRINT!
It could happen, but time is running out! The deadline for entries for this year's 2001 4-H Photography Contest is April 15, 0! - During last year's contest National Council received us over 1,000 entr
Now is the time to send your eligible entries to National Council! Entries must be received no later than April 15, 2000! More information -- contact http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/4hstuff/
27th Annual National Volunteer Week
Two national events to connect young people to their communities are held during National Volunteer Week, April 9-15, 2000. These two events are "National Youth Service Day," spearheaded by Youth Service America and Nickelodeon's "The Big Help", which takes place throughout the week. The Points of Light Foundation has materials and resources available to help celebrate Volunteer Week. For more information, visit their websites at www.pointsoflight.com/nvw2000/nvw_index.html and http://servenet.org
July 5-8 at Grave's Mountain Lodge in Madison Virginia. Please let me know if you would like to receive a hardcopy information brochure. I will be glad to put it in the mail to you. Assistance is needed with this camp so if you are interested in helping please contact me by email cbarnett@vt.edu or Phone: 540-948-6881
(Chad Barnett)
The arrival of spring means that it's time to get excited about the June Dairy Month 4-H Poster Contest. This year's theme is "Get moo-ving with milk." There will be three age groups in the contest: junior, intermediate, and senior. Every entry will receive a participation award. First, second, and third place winners will receive ribbons at the local level. Each unit may submit the top three posters in each age group for further competition to the state contest held at State 4-H Congress in June. State winners in each age category will receive cash prizes (first = $30, second = $20, and third = $15). Those receiving an honorable mention will be awarded a rosette ribbon.
The contest format is the same as in previous years. To order buttons and ribbons needed for the program in your unit, please complete an on-line request form at the following URL: http://www.dasc.vt.edu/forms/posterform.html. Deadline for ordering contest supplies is May 15.
Encourage your young people to display their posters in prominent locations to promote June Dairy Month. For more information, contact Dave Winston in the Department of Dairy Science (540-231-5693; dwinston@vt.edu).
(David Winston)
Two district 4-H dairy quiz bowl competitions have been scheduled this spring. Study materials and contest rules can be found on the Internet (www.dasc.vt.edu/youth/bowlmat.html). Questions for senior contestants will be taken from the whole packet. Questions for junior contestants will be taken from the following sections:
Northern District 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000
Check-in: 5:30 PM / Contest: 6:00 PM
Host: Madison 4-H Dairy Club
Location: Wetsel Middle School in Madison
Northwest District 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl
Date: Friday, April 28, 2000
Check-in: 5:30 PM / Contest: 6:00 PM
Host: Rockingham 4-H Dairy Club
Location: Montevideo Middle School
Important Information for Both Contests
Registration Deadline: Noon on Tuesday, April 25
Registration Procedure: Call Dave Winston (540/231-5693) or complete the on-line registration form (www.dasc.vt.edu/forms/quizbowl.html).
If your unit is in a district other than Northern or Northwest and you wish to participate in a district contest, you are allowed to compete in the contest closest to your unit. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best wishes for a great spring.
(David Winston)
The state 4-H contests for both Wildlife Habitat Evaluation and Forestry Judging are scheduled for Saturday, May 13, 2000 , at Holiday Lake 4-H Center. Both will be preceded by optional training sessions on Friday (May 12) afternoon and evening.
(This is all being held in conjunction with "Judging Weekend"- which also includes soil judging, consumerama, etc.- sponsored by Central district but open to all).
Please contact me (mjc4h@vt.edu) if you expect to have wildlife or forestry teams or individuals participating so that we can make sure that you receive the registration packet as soon as it is available.
Important Wildlife Judging information: The new national manual is finally available and will be used for the state and national contests. We are ordering copies; details soon. Also, you may want to check out the new national WHEP website at...
http://www.aces.edu/dept/WHEP/
(Mike Clifford)
By now you should have received information relating to 4-H Career Days 2000 at Paramount's Kings Dominion. The dates for CAREER DAYS are May 13-14, 20-21, 27-31 and June 1-2, 2000.
Costs are as follows:
1 day tickets (ages 7 and above)--$24 each
1 day tickets (ages 3-6 OR under 48" tall)--$21.00 each
2 day tickets (ages 7 and above)--$36.00
2 day tickets (ages 3-6 OR under 48" tall)--$32.00 each
Adult meal tickets (ages 7 and above)--$6.30 each
(May 13 or June 2 ONLY)
Children's meal tickets (ages 3-6)--$3.15 each
(May 13 or June 2 ONLY)
Number of complimentary tickets
(1 for every 10 purchased)
Educational Seminars
Horticulture Seminar will be held ONLY on May 13 and June 2 -- Information on Seminar times and locations will be sent upon receipt of payment for tickets.
Contact Persons for 4-H Career Days
Mr. Rudolph Powell (804) 524-5965 or
Mrs. Tracy Downey (804) 524-5964
Kelly Wright, Promotion Coordinator
PH: (804) 876-5561
(Rudy Powell)
4-H and FFA members from throughout Virginia came to Blacksburg on March 3 and 4 to compete in two different livestock contests that were planned and conducted by members of the Block and Bridle Club of Virginia Tech. The Block and Bridle Club conducts many activities throughout the year and these contests involve the most people by far.
In the Livestock Judging Contest a total of 331 contestants competed. They judged classes of beef cattle, sheep, and swine, interpreted performance records, answered questions about the classes they judged, and gave oral reasons to justify their decisions. The contest was run in divisions called Official and Alternate, which were separately scored. Results from both divisions are attached.
(Mark Wahlberg)
Young people can now use their computers to learn about food production by visiting the 4-H Virtual Farm. The 4-H Virtual Farm is a website that features Virginia farms and farmers. From their computers students will be able to tour a variety of Virginia farms and learn about the role of agriculture in the state and the nation. The website helps elementary students understand the role of agriculture in their daily lives as well as its importance in the state. It helps them see why farming is part of everyone's life, even if they never see a real cow or the amber fields of grain.
The Virtual Farm at www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm features Virginia farms and farmers. Some of the features the students will see include the incubation of an egg and a baby chick hatching. On another part of the site, they can watch dairy cows being milked. They will meet farmers, seeing and hearing them talk about what they do.
Virginia Cooperative Extension specialists created the Virtual Farm on the Internet through its 4-H youth development program to help youngsters learn how food is produced. Putting it on the World Wide Web as a virtual farm allows Virginia youth to take advantage of the technology of computers at their schools or from their homes.
(John Dooley)
The Virginia 4-H Tech Corps (Patrick Co.'s Bev Beasley is President) led Virginia teens in creating an online collaborative murder mystery that has received some great press and inquiries from other states and even Canada.
The murder mystery will finish 3/29 at http://athena.english.vt.edu/~laws/mystery . Thanks to Carol Byrd, Ruth Wallace and Charles Lytton for steering some 4-H writers our way. Some high school classrooms are also writing some episodes and studying colonial times as part of this project.
One publicity piece about the project (and Va 4-H!) is at http://www.education-world.com, a pretty respected WWW site for k-12 educators.
Online activities like this are great to keep teens involved in 4-H, to teach teamwork and technology, to foster teen leadership with a minimum of adult managerial time, and NO transportation costs. 4-H Tech Corps will have more upcoming online activities, and probably another online novel next year - so please keep this in mind for your teens, and let me know if you have ideas that our 4-H Tech Corps can help with.
(Peter Laws)
The College of Natural Resources forestry outreach website (FORSite) is being expanded to include a "Teachers' Edition" with direct links to Virginia Standards of Learning for grades 3 - 7. Your comments during the development stage would be greatly appreciated. FORSite currently has three major features:
Addresses:
FORSite
Teachers' Edition (under development)
Examples of these sites may be found in the attachement section of this letter.
(Jeff Kirwan )
The National Safety Council has announced their 2000 Youth Safety Awards Program; a program that has been honoring youth for their activism and leadership in safety and health issues for nearly 40 years.
Applications are due June 1. Visit the Safety Council's web site at http://www.nsc.org for award criteria and applications. This is also a great site for program ideas and information on safety.
Here are some of helpful snippets I thought appropriate for adults working with 4-H and other youth.
America's Children: Challenges for the 21st Century
Do you sometimes feel like you can't see the forest for the trees, with the wealth of reports and data about kids' health, education, safety and financing now immediately available on the Internet? Did you know that the firearm epidemic is ten times larger than the polio epidemic in the first half of the 20th century, for example? "America's Children: Challenges for the 21st Century," a new 4-pager from the Children's Partnership, can help
you get the big picture of today's challenges and what the future holds, just in time for use during this election year.
http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/children2000/index.html
Key Reports and Data are posted in the Reference Room online on the Connect for Kids Web site.
http://www.connectforkids.org/homepage1543/index.htm
Education Fund ing Help
"Promising Initiatives to Improve Education in Your Community" is a guide to selected funding opportunities with detailed information on specific programs like Class Size Reduction, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Reading Excellence, Technology Literacy Challenge Fund, Safe & Drug Free Schools, Middle School Coordinators Program, Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program, Public Charter Schools Program, Advanced
Placement Incentive Program, College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) & High School Equivalency Program (HEP), Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants, Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Prog gram, Bilingual Professional Development Program, GEAR UP, and more.
The guide includes descriptions of exemplary projects and links to related resources. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/promisinginitiatives/
Time to Start Planting!
America the Beautiful Fund is offering free seeds to help community-based projects help feed the hungry and improve public spaces by planting vegetable and flower seeds. Get a FREE SEED! application by sending a self-addressed envelope to America the Beautiful Fund, 1730 K St., NW, Suite 1002, Washington, DC 20006.
http://www.america-the-beautiful.org
National Youth Service Day Toolkit
April is just days away, so don't delay! Get the Youth Service Day 2000 Toolkit, with features on how your organization can support the five goals of America's Promise, involve young people with disabilities in community service, and contact information for all event sponsors, national nonprofit partners and YSA affiliates. The Toolkit complements the three Do Something/YSA Service-Learning Curriculum Guides. To receive a hard copy of the Toolkit and/or the Curriculum Guides, call Theo Abbott at (202)
296-2992, ext. 23 or email
www.theo@ysa.org. http://www.servenet.org/nysd
After School Action Kits
For parents, grandparents, educators and community leaders who want to be sure their school-aged kids have good options for the after-school hours, the "Getting into Action: After School Action Kit" highlights what's important about after school programs, how to find quality programs and
resources and ideas for getting started. To obtain a copy call (877) 4ED-PUBS.
Great Places to Learn Handbook
"Great Places to Learn," a Search Institute handbook, is a down-to-earth guide to help educators, parents, kids and community activists forge environments that are rich in developmental assets that foster healthy kids and communities. There's even a "tip sheet" for bus drivers! Cost: $29.95. To order, call 800-888-7828.
What Works in Middle School?
If you missed the February 15, 2000, Satellite Town Meeting looking at the middle school period as a critical transitional time for adolescent development and achievement, you can get a videotape. Call 877-4-EDPUBS.
TIPS FOR PARENTS
Help Your Kids Read and Write
Check out the 400 activities for strengthening children's reading and writing skills and ideas for maintaining good school-family partnerships
from the Compact for Reading program's "School-Home Links Reading Kits." There is one kit for each grade level, kindergarten through 3rd grade.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/
Your Baby's Brain
When your baby smiles, do you smile back? Did you know that by doing so you are helping to develop a healthy brain? If you are taking care of a baby, toddler or preschooler, you will want to know about the latest brain development research and how it translates into everyday ideas for nurturing young children. Get an English or Spanish version of "Your Baby's Brain: A Parent's Guide to the First Five Years" by calling 877-ED-PUBS.
Parents of young children can find more information on babies' brains in the Connect for Kids "Early Years" feature. Parents of school-age kids can find tips and resources to help improve their children's learning in the "Kids and Learning" feature. http://www.connectforkids.org/homepage1548/index.htm
CHILD CARE
Better Strategies for Babies: Strengthening the Caregivers and Families of Infants and Toddlers
Low-income parents who are caring for babies and working live especially complicated lives. States and communities can help parents raise healthy babies by supporting policies and programs that aid kith and kin who are helping to care for babies of working parents. To explore ways family support and child development programs can help parents affected by welfare reform, use TANF funds for home-visiting to families with newborns, strengthen cross-system training for professionals working with young children and other strategies, read this recent publication from the National Center for Children in Poverty.
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/cwrb7txt.htm
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2000 Block and Bridle Livestock Contest Results
On March 3 and 4 4-H and FFA members from throughout Virginia came to Blacksburg to compete in two different livestock contests that were planned and conducted by members of the Block and Bridle Club of Virginia Tech. The Block and Bridle Club conducts many activities throughout the year and these contests involve the most people by far.
In the Livestock Judging Contest a total of 331 contestants competed. They judged classes of beef cattle, sheep, and swine, interpreted performance records, answered questions about the classes they judged, and gave oral reasons to justify their decisions. The contest was run in divisions called Official and Alternate, which were separately scored. Results from both divisions follow.
2000 Block and Bridle Livestock Judging Contest
Winners in the Alternate Division are below. Alternates did not give reasons, and consist of members age 9 through 19. There were 214 contestants and 53 teams of at least 3 members.
Total points possible was 525.
Top Ten Teams
(top 3 members compose team total)
Total ScoreRank Team Score 1 Clarke High FFA 1364 2 Pittsylvania Co. 4-H A 1340 3 Loudoun FFA 1319 4 Shenandoah 4-H A 1317 5 Frederick Co. 4-H A 1315 6 Virginia Beach 4-H A 1305 7 Louisa FFA 1296 8 Spottswood High FFA B 1274 9 Spottswood High FFA A 1273 10 Clarke Co. 4-H A 1268
Ten Ten Individuals
(Ties broken by questions scores)
Total ScoreRank Contestant Team Score 1 Graham Winn Pittsylvania Co. 4-H 477 2 Jennifer Kingrey Louisa FFA 466 3 Seth Buckley Clarke High FFA 462 4 Adam Heishman Shenandoah 4-H A 457 5 Dixie Boyd Frederick Co. 4-H A 456 6 Tyler Kellam Virginia Beach 4-H A 455 7 Sandy Peery Tazewell High FFA B 454 8 Jesse Cather Clarke High FFA 454 9 Adrienne Lynch Orange Co. 4-H A 452 10 Eliza White Frederick Co. 4-H A 451
2000 Block and Bridle Livestock Judging Contest
In the Official Division 117 Individuals and 28 teams of 3 or 4 members participated. Official contestants judged the same classes, answered the same questions, and also gave oral reasons on 3 classes. The winners are shown below. Total points possible was 675.
Top Ten Teams
(top 3 members compose team total)
Total ScoreRank Team Score 1 Amelia Co. 4-H 1799 2 Spotswood High FFA 1714 3 Shenandoah 4-H 1708 4 Augusta Co. 4-H 1704 5 Page Co. 4-H 1701 6 Pittsylvania Co. 4-H 1698 7 Rockbridge Co. 4-H 1657 8 Riverheads FFA 1646 9 Rural Retreat 4-H 1584 10 Fauquier 4-H 1577
Ten Ten Individuals
(Ties broken by questions scores)
Total ScoreRank Contestant Team Score 1 Jessica Bricker Amelia Co. 4-H 606 2 Rachel Swortzel Augusta Co. 4-H 605 3 Jennifer Bricker Amelia Co. 4-H 599 4 Nathan Royster Amelia Co. 4-H 594 5 Neal Buchanan Riverheads FFA 592 6 Jason Pratt Washington Co. 4-H 580 7 Jeremy Dorrough Page Co. 4-H 577 8 April Kyger Spotswood FFA 575 9 Rebecca Funkhouser Shenandoah 4-H 573 10 Whitney Lindsey Pittsylvania Co. 4-H 573
The Junior Stockmens Contest is a test of general knowledge about livestock subjects. The contest includes identification of feeds, equipment, breeds, and retail meats cuts. Contestants judge classes of hay, meats cuts, beef cattle, sheep, and swine, and answer questions about the animal classes. They also take a 25-question quiz on information pertaining to livestock. The contest included a Junior Division (less than 14 for 4H or 8th grade or less for FFA) and a Senior Division (14-19 for 4H or 9th grade and up for FFA). A total of 395 members competed in the contest. Results for each division are shown below.
2000 Block and Bridle Junior Stockmens Contest
Winners in the Junior Division are shown below. There were 37 teams of at least 3 members representing 36 different groups, and a total of 162 contestants.
Top Ten Junior Teams
(top 3 members compose team total)
Total ScoreRank Team Score 1 Rural Retreat FFA 1448 2 Isle of Wight 4H 1375 3 Nelson Middle FFA 1358 4 Amelia 4H 1354 5 Frederick 4H 1352 6 Fairfax 4H 1346 7 Montgomery 4H 1300 8 Nottoway 4H 1298 9 Patrick 4H 1276 10 Pulaski 4H B 1268
Ten Ten Junior Individuals
(Ties broken by quiz scores)
Total ScoreRank Contestant Team Score 1 Kristin Wahlberg Montgmery 4H 545 2 Hunter Wilson Rural Retreat 522 3 Kathryn Taylor Amelia 4H 521 4 Eric Wilson Rural Retreat 503 5 Andreas Poulson Mntvideo FFA 501 6 Bekah Rosie I of Wight 4H 498 7 Jamie Hewitt Jas Wood Mid 492 8 James Galante Fairfax 4H 491 9 Jesse Peacock Frederick 4H 487 10 Ben Roudabush Patrick 4H 475
2000 Block and Bridle Junior Stockmens Contest
In the Senior Division there were 56 teams of at least 3 members representing 42 different groups, and a total of 233 contestants. Senior and Junior contests differed only in the quiz. All other classes were the same.
Top Ten Senior Teams
(top 3 members compose team total)
Total ScoreRank Team Score 1 Sherando FFA 1504 2 Frederick 4H 1480 3 Isle of Wight 4H 1463 4 Rockbridge 4H 1408 5 Clarke HS FFA 1387 6 James Wood FFA A 1385 7 Page 4H 1374 8 Washington 4H A 1372 9 Orange 4H 1366 10 Fairfax 4H 1362
Ten Ten Senior Individuals
(Ties broken by questions scores)
Total ScoreRank Contestant Team Score 1 Jason Pratt Washington 4H 536 2 Laura Ganley Fairfax 4H 525 3 Stewart Boyd Frederick 4H 516 4 Laura Hulver Sherando FFA 514 5 Donnie Rosie I of Wight 4H 513 6 Sarah Lohman Orange 4H 509 7 Jennifer Showalter Rockbridge 4H 504 8 Seth Buckley Clarke HS FFA 502 9 Amanda Hobbs Abingdon FFA 502 10 Sarah Orndorff Sherando FFA 502
LABO Members Needing Host Families July 24-August 20, 2000
ID
LABO Member
Gender
Age
Interests
CHB-029
Saegusa, Yoko
F
14
Playing volleyball, plays piano, listening to music, hiking, camping.
FUK-095
Hayashida, Yoshikuni
M
12
Playing soccer, swimming, sports, reading, outdoors, listening to music, camping, basketball. Is talkative, laughs a lot.
FUK-104
Furukawa, Hiroto
M
12
Ham radio, remote controlled toys; cycling, calligraphy, gardening, fishing, personal computer game. Wants to stay on a farm, help milk cows, and go fishing.
FUK-118
Murata, Takaharu
M
12
Playing electric organ, raising plants. Wants to ride a horse. Is tidy, curious, shy, cheerful. Enjoys classical music. Father is Japanese Buddhist priest.
FUK-121
Mori, Kazuki
F
13
Playing piano, badminton, swimming, camping. Interested in farm life and outdoors. Wants to help grow vegetables and teach origami and keno. Also enjoys shopping. Is tidy, shy, cheerful, quiet. Favorite subject is English.
HIJ-032
Suede, Akiko
F
14
Camp, drawing pictures, listening to music, reading. Wants to go to Smithsonian Museum. Also enjoys shopping. Loves animals. Reads adventure and fantasy novels.
KNG-033
Kiryu, Masashi
M
15
Playing baseball, listening to music, horse racing. Wants to play baseball with host — he’s a pitcher. Would like to see American baseball game. Also enjoys eating, walking. Is cheerful, curious, sociable and serious. Values kindness, honesty and sincerity.
KNG-036
Kurosawa, Jumpei
M
16
Singing, playing field and track. Playing TV games, listening to music, swimming, playing soccer. Wants to go to ocean; wants to run with host. Laughs a lot, is tolerant and serious.
KNG-081
Minami, Shiori
F
13
Drawing cartoons, playing piano, raising animals, writing letters, swimming. Very artistic. Is talkative, tolerant, laughs a lot.
NGC-024
Baba, Satoko
F
12
Reading science fiction and poetry; drawing, shopping, swimming and cooking. Is shy, serious and kind.
NGN-004
Kanai, Hiroki
M
12
Playing tennis, soccer, swimming, go-game, astronomy, insects, spin-the-top, shopping, camping. Wants to see Atlantic Ocean and play tennis with host family if possible. Is curious, talkative, laughs a lot.
NGO-014
Uchino, Yuya
M
14
Playing baseball, soccer and tennis, swimming. Making plastic models. Interested in dolphins and wants to be an oceanography scholar. Wants to have many friends in America.
NGO-075
Nishiyasu, Saori
F
13
Drawing pictures — oil painting and cartoons- handicrafts, knitting, creative activities, design, camping , basketball. Wants to visit a town where she can enjoy arts and make crafts. Also enjoys shopping and eating. Is cheerful, talkative, sociable.
OSH-005
Ikeda, Mami
F
13
Likes cooking and gardening very much. Has a dog. Also likes shopping, camping, tennis, swimming, singing, music, sports, Is tidy, cheerful, sociable. Doesn’t like vegetables except for lettuce. Favorite subject is English.
OSO-017
Kosaki, Junichi
M
14
Enjoys horse racing, baseball, table tennis and computer games. Wants to help with horses and see a race track. Also enjoys eating, swimming, sports. Curious; laughs a lot. Enjoys TV.
OSO-030
Teshima, Junko
F
17
Enjoys playing tennis, cooking, painting pictures, listening to music. Wants to be on a farm, helping with cows, horses, etc. Also enjoys shopping, camping, singing, cooking, music.
OSO-046
Murakami, Natsumi
F
13
Listening to music; calligraphy; playing volleyball; playing piano, reading, origami, cooking, cycling. Wants to help on a farm. Allergic to several fruits, but enjoys eating. Sociable, tolerant, laughs a lot.
SAI-020
Sugawara, Shogo
M
13
Likes soccer very much. Would like to see baseball game if possible. Wants to make new friends. Also enjoys walking, swimming, music. Is patient, sociable, laughs a lot, serious.
SDJ-009
Oizumi, Tomofumi
M
14
Interested in plants; likes baseball, knitting. Good at ski Also likes camping, eating, cooking, sports. Is cheerful, quiet.
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SDJ-036
Nimura, Akiko
F
13
Playing tennis, playing violin, swimming, jogging, watching soccer; listening to popular music; cooking; camping, shopping. Curious, patient, cheerful.
SDJ-040
Hirokawa, Aya
F
12
Playing piano; reading, especially comic books; playing badminton, drawing cartoons. Also swims. Has a dog and cat. Enjoys shopping, eating. Cheerful, talkative. Likes computer games.
SDJ-041
Fukushi, Ayaka
F
14
Drawing cartoons, astronomy, travel, skiing, swimming, orienteering, hiking, cycling, TV games. Wants to go to a library, shopping, planetariums, amusement park, if possible.
SHK-001
Akagawa, Karin
F
14
Handicrafts, calligraphy, painting pictures, reading, listening to music, watching TV, shopping, cooking, tennis. Is curious, talkative. Art is favorite subject. Family has vegetable garden.
TYO-027
Saito, Ayano
F
13
Playing volleyball and piano; singing; listening to music, shopping, swimming. Cheerful and talkative.
YAM-007
Toguri, Moe
F
12
Likes reading books and comics; shopping, sports-running and playing basketball; listening to music; singing, eating. Is cheerful, patient, sociable, and serious.
