Students Travel to Japan for 26th Exchange
During Spring Break, eight Middle School students traveled to Haibara, Japan to participate in the 26th Hawken•Haibara Community Exchange.
Each student, staying with individual host families, experienced a deep, immersive cultural adventure, visiting Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, big cities, and small towns. They explored food, dress, and cultural traditions very different from their Northeast Ohio norms. In the process, they certainly learned a lot about Japan, but more importantly, they learned a lot about themselves and their own culture.
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Many students, reflecting afterward, shared that their sense of the world had been greatly impacted by the visit and that an interest in world cultures and travel had been awakened. At least one student shared that he plans to move to Haibara “as soon as he turns 18.”
Click here to view a blog about the trip.
Click here to view a blog about the trip.
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Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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