Sebastopol World Friends

Yamauchi-machi, Sebastopol Sister City for more than two decades!

In 1985 Sebastopol World Friends began a sister city relationship with Yamauchi-machi, Japan. Home-stay exchanges each spring have given generations of students from each city a deeper understanding of cultural differences and similarities while creating lifetime friendships bridging the pacific ocean.

On March 1, 2006, Yamauchi-machi merged with Takeo-shi and Kitagata-machi to form the new city of Takeo.

Gotta keep this short because I need sleep, but wanted to post so everyone knew that we're safe and sound. We'll post more as soon as we can!

Update:
Want to see how awake we were on the bus to Yamauchi-Takeo?

Several more photos are attached, see below.

I think a marching band could have gone by and they wouldn't have noticed. It was a pretty exhausting trip. But we made it.

All the students did a great job helping move luggage at the airports, and also when we hit unexpectedly long lines at immigration control in Tokyo, the students did a great job of following instructions and really helped us make sure we made our flight to Fukuoka. Kudos to them.

- Chris

Hi everyone.