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June 20
Asahikawa International Committee's Friendship Party

The Asahikawa International Committee holds Friendship Parties to welcome foreign visitors and residents of Asahikawa and also to help Internationalize the Japanese residents of Ashahikawa. The turnout for the Friendship Party this time was great. We had a lot of visitors from all over the world, including Egypt and Tanzania.
Mariko did a lot of the announcements	These are two fo my students from Asahiakwa Commerical High School (Hikaru and Mizuho)

June 25
Mini-Volleyball Competition in Tanno-cho

Travis held a mini-volleyball event in his town this weekend. For those who don't know (I didn't), mini-volleyball is a sport that is basically the same as normal volleyball, except that the ball is softer and more beach-ball like and the court is smaller, making the game a little easier. The ALTs in attendance were grouped with Junior High students into teams.
We're ready to play!	Warming Up
Team Kazaam! (too bad we lost every game)	We lost to this team, we really lost
Save me!	When not playing, we helped out with officiating. I was the scorekeeper.
This team was performing it's 2nd place victory pyramid	This group won first place