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

Hi everyone,
I have a Japanese visitor coming to visit my area in the hopes of negotiating a sister city/school. I need to know if anyone has been in a similar situation or what you guys have done when you've had your sister schools'
students visit? Did you involve your local council? What did they do? Etc...
Thank you
Melissa Pol
Japanese Teacher
Great Lakes College Forster Campus
melissa.pol1@det.nsw.edu.au