The St Clare’s High School Kobe Kaisei exchange program saw 25 Japanese students visit the Manning Valley for two weeks.
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Families of St Clare’s High School in Taree welcomed the students and their teachers Shu Sensei and Morimoto Sensei to St Clare’s and into their homes from July 24 and according to principal, Peter Nicholls, “the excitement of both visitors and hosts was tangible as the Japanese ‘sisters’ were gathered up by their host families and enjoined into their family, community and school life.”
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“The St Clare’s Kobe Kaisei student exchange program is a small sign that when people meet each other in friendship and mutual respect we all grow and develop as people who can lead the world to a ‘better place’.
“The concept of welcoming the stranger and being kind to each other is a consistent message of the gospels and one that resonates in our world where the negative and bullying message of many world leaders seeks to dehumanise or demonise people of different races, religions or cultures.”
The Japanese students attended school, visited Camp Elim near Forster and took part in numerous activities with their host families during their time in the Manning Valley.
