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Show 1 iST?ti CS 1 . 'C o .H.N tie. jfj; I ; i M . 'by CAROL S. LEMON Recently, Carol Nowers, Colleen Truman and Fran Marshall were privileged to spend five weeks in Japan through the 4-H La bo Exchange Ex-change program.' Fifty -five young people from Utah participated. par-ticipated. Fran, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vance Marshall, Mar-shall, Minersville, tells us about her experiences. "It was my first flight," ' tt ' ... ' . said Fran. "It was really fun, but I got airsick. We arrived in Tokyo and our host families and others from La bo were there to meet us, cheering and waving. wav-ing. We stayed at the Olympic Olym-pic Center for two days and then went to the homes of our families. My family was Mr. Tsuguo Watanabe, his wife, Hiroyo, and their three children. He is a clerk in a . department store. Hiroyo is a tutor and teaches drama to children. One of their favorite fa-vorite plays is Peter Pan. I must have seen that a miU lion times. Their home was small but nice, and had no yard . at all.. Hiroyo spoke some English, but there were times I really got homesick to hear someone speaking American again." "Tokyo is a beautiful city. Very modern and large. The young people dress very modern I think even more modern than, we do here. Some of the older people still wear the kimono-style clothing. cloth-ing. Everywhere you go there are people. Not just a few, but crowds and crowds." "Sometimes in the evenings, eve-nings, my host Mother and I woul d go shopping. 'She shopped at open-air markets though there was a supermarket super-market nearby. Everything imaginable was sold in these little shops and there were always big crowds." : "We had a typhoon while I was there, and I slept through two earthquakes thank goodness!" , "All the 4-H youth went to Mt. Niko for an outing. We stayed in the hotel, had campfire programs and plays. The next day we went Roger D. Olpin 3rd Generation ' Funeral Director i Every mortuary operator op-erator in every city and town needs up-to-date information about what people in his community j think now, today. Infor- ! mation Is needed about the public's attitude on customs, pricing policies, poli-cies, personnel, method of pre -need, and the funeral fu-neral service itself. We solicit and welcome wel-come your questions and opinions on any aspect of this subject. . km, -in - iirariiittat'niwiihif.itf.tintiii iiaVmrrirfft'riiiwrf ? FRAN MARSHALL HOME FROM JAPAN deeper into the mountains. There were beautiful lakes everywhere." "We also went to the Labo Camp. I celebrated my 18th birthday ' there. Hiroyo bought a cake for me and the kids at camp sang some songs and had a little celebration cele-bration for me. We enjoyed a trip to an amusement park, , similar to Lagoon though i it rained all day. We toured ' quite a bit of the country-i country-i side. It was beautiful. Lots of farms and rice fields everywhere." "One day we visited Mr. Watanabe's father and mother mo-ther in another city. They are the old style Japanese. , Their house was typically Japanese and had the old i customs and ways. I enjoyed ' visiting them. They sent back i some gifts for my family." ' "I had the privilege to at-i at-i tend the LDS Conference held in Tokyo, and sawPres. Kim- ball and the other authorl- ties there. The speakers' I messages were translated I into American and Japanese I simultaneously." "I'm really glad I went to I Japan. It really made me ap-L ap-L predate my home and coun- try. I came to respect them more than ever. Sometimes we take our parents for granted but not anymore. I'm glad to be home!" Guess that old saying is true "No matter where we may wander or wherever we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ." ji |