Sunday afternoon, 7 students and 1 chaperone arrive at the San Francisco International Airport, beginning a 2 week whirlwind adventure in Santa Rosa. All are participants in 2016 SRKSEP, the Santa Rosa Kagoshima Student Exchange Program. Chaperone Naoya Sumiyoshi was joined with 7  students, Haruka Tenokuchi, Risa Fujisaki, Yuuka Murata, Saki Kariya, Yuka Kammura, Chisaki Gatayma and Emi Ibusuki. They were all greeted at the airport by host Quinn Kezer, Dave and Shauna Lorenzen, and Tom and John Eakin.

On the way home, the travelers stopped at the "In and Out" in Strawberry for their first "American" lunch.

Then it was off to Santa Rosa and Nagasawa Park for delivery to host families; Childs'; Heydon's; Lorenzen's; Epps', Harrington's; Pounden's and Welch's.
Tomorrow starts all the local touring........................
 
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