Fukuroi City Hall is seeking schools to participate in Skype sessions with community members in Fukuroi City, Japan.

Proposed dates:
First Skype session - August 15-19
Second Skype session - September 12-16
Third Skype session - January 23-28

Interested schools should contact Heather Bates: heather.y.bates@gmail.com
Coordinator for International Relations
International Exchange Office, Fukuroi City Hall

The LABO exchange program takes place from 16 December 2016 until 9 January 2017 and offers students (15-17 years) the opportunity to live with a Japanese family, attend school with a host sister/brother and participate in a camp with international students. The application documents can be downloaded below and must be completed and returned to Mitsui Travel by 31 August. 
For further details contact Ayako Mitsui at  on 0408 442 614 ​​

Host an AFS'er arriving Feb 6 2015! 

AFS are excited to be welcoming a big group of participants to Australia from the 6th of February 2015.

We are on the lookout for loving host families who are willing to share their family and culture with these students and community service volunteers.

Checkout the students still waiting for a host family in your state. Students will be removed as they are placed across Australia.

Interested in finding out more? 
Head to http://www.afs.org.au/host/student-profiles/#nsw


For more information about AFS attend an Open Day.
Attend an AFS Open Day or Night – Go on Exchange in 2015

Come along and meet our team and connect with AFS. We are the only organisation with people on the ground. There's over 70 events planned across Australia….. There's an event happening near you!
 
For more information and to register head
to:

http://www.afs.org.au/news-and-events/open-days/

This exchange program has been operating for more than 20 years. It is a 3+ week homestay program for students aged 15-17 years, designed for students who want to experience Japan as part of a Japanese family. The program will be centred in and around Tokyo. Host families are chosen based on same gender, same age and similar family profiles. Students depart Australia 18 December and return 11 January 2015.Total cost is $4790.
For further information please see attached file, or contact Ayako Mitsui 0408.442.614 or email ayako@mitsuitravel.com.au

My name is Kylie Ha and I was a former Japanese/Chinese teacher in Sydney. Currently, I'm teaching English as an ALT on the JET programme in Tsukumi, Oita prefecture. 

I have two junior high schools who are interested in setting up ongoing bilingual correspondence with students in Australia. Rather than a whole-class activity, we will be marketing this correspondence here as optional
English practice for interested students to be completed outside of class time. 
 
One school would prefer these correspondences to be via email to keep the activity cost-free. However, they would like me to act as thego-between and for all correspondences to be sent and received through my email
account. At this school in particular, there are so far 20 third grade junior high students who are interested (all girls). 
 
At the other junior high school, they would prefer to regularly collect actual letters from students and post them to one Australian school. This school hasn't gotten back to me regarding student numbers but I'm predicting a similar number of interested students. 
 
If any teachers who are interested in email or letter writing correspondences, would it be possible for them to contact me at
kylieha@gmail.com?

3 host families are required to host female students from Japan from 22 July until 12 August in the LABO Exchange program. Please contact Ayako Mitsui at Mitsui Travel if you are able to host. Telephone 0408.442.614 or email ayako@mitsuitravel.com.au

I am an English teacher at Odochi Junior High School in Japan and now I would like to have a friendship school to motivate my students to study English.
My school stands at a mountainous rural area in the south west of Japan. There are only 30 students (age 13-15) in my school.  A previous English teacher started to upload some students' works about their school life on the school homepage last year (http://www.kochinet.ed.jp/odochi-j/tch/tch.html).
I would like my students to give chances to communicate with your students through collaborating many things together.  We may have real-time communication in future because we don't have much time difference.
 It is all right to start from your next school year in September.
I'd like to prepare and exchange ideas with you for our cooperation.
 I hope you are interested in working together with a Japanese school.
 Please return your message to this e-mail. I'm waiting for your reply.
 Sincerely yours,
 Mikayo Kamegawa(Ms)
 Odochi Junior High School
 Kochi, Japan
 e-mail address 1: mkykm@hotmail.com
 e-mail address 2: mikayo_kamegawa@kt2.kochinet.ed.jp

Thanks to Shirlee Rowland for sharing these.

AFS has a number of scholarships available for students to study in Japan on an AFS Exchange program.