Thursday, July 15th, 2004 These pics are from the Mito City Interactive English Forum. Every Junior High in Mito City (15 schools in all) had two students from 8th grade and 2 from 9th grade competing. Both Rachel and I helped train the students from our schools. Three students have to carry a conversation about Family, Friends, Hobbies, or School Life for five minutes at a time for three rounds. These are Rachel's students and Team Teacher (from left to right: Ikezaki Sensei, Yukina, Yurina, Chihiro, Erika, and Rachel). Chihiro, an 8th grade student took home an award and an opportunity to go to the next level. All the students did a great job with a difficult task.