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Show The Ross Williams and Michal Fowlks families in Panguitch each had a Japanese foreign exchange ex-change students visit in their home for one PANGUITCH Neighbors, friends, and 4-H enthusiasts the Ross Williams and Michal Fowlks families both decided to take in a 4-H 4-H Japanese foreign exchange student stu-dent for one month this summer. Now with that month complete and the two students headed back for their families in Japan, this is a bittersweet bit-tersweet week for these American families. For Ross and Cindy Williams this makes four consecutive years that they have been a host family. Their children Stephanie, 16, Lisa, 13, Amy, 11 and Sarah 9 had another an-other female exchange student this year named Tomomi Ishizaka, age 15 from Tokyo. Back in Japan Tomoni has one older brother, so this was quite the neat culture shock to be surrounded all month by mostly girls. On their final day with their student the Williams family was headed to see the sights at Zion National Park. The Michal and Suzzette Fowlks family on the other hand, who have one son, Brad, 13 and a daughter, Leslie, 10 got a male Japanese exchange student, Mizuki month under the 4-H program. There was great sightseeing,, an exciting exchange of culture and a real bonding for all. Two Local Families Say Goodbye To Their New Japanese Family Members Gomi, age 14, from Funabashi, Japan. Mizuki, an only child back in Japan, got to compete in a 5K run with his host family and made a "dream catcher" to exhibit in the Garfield County Fair. For both families there was four weeks of lots of sightseeing, local activities and a major change of cuisine for the Japanese students. Both mothers saw their new charges really take to American food, saying "they ate like horses." Between the two they learned to love spaghetti, ice cream, bread, cherry coke and Gummy worms. |
