Sister Cities

Idaho Falls Sister Cities Youth Meeting September 18, 2017 Attendees: Cameron Archer Peter Cebull *Robin Jergins Noah Sandoval Jenna Bauer Tate Corbridge Alexia Lords Brooke Simpson Karen Bauer Garrett Corbridge Teddy Matranga Whitney St. Michel Max Benjamin Brennan Corbridge David Matranga Ian St. Michel Misty Benjamin Dave Eaton Gabe Padron Anna St.Michel Maggie Boring Kylie Eaton Kendra Peck Jackie Sugai Wendy Boring Katie Eaton Nathan Peck *Gai Tahakshi Elliot Boring Mario Estrada Dallin Peck Ness Villasenor Nicholas Cebull *Colvin Jergins Laurie Retallic *Indicates Guest Business Section of the Meeting Minutes: The September 6th meeting minutes and the September 13th board meeting minutes were provided to the group by email. Kendra motioned to approve the meeting minutes and Katie seconded her motion. Kendra motioned to approve the board minutes and Peter seconded her motion. September 13th Board Meeting: Dave discussed the decisions made at the board meeting. Misty had requested the hosting points for her family be split between her family and Ness’s family since they shared in the work of hosting. The board agreed this was fair. The Matranga family had hosted students in the past and had points from previous years. The board decided to give David the 10 points for being a member able to go to Japan and not going. To make up for the monetary value of the points the Matranga’s will not be charged for hosting activities they participated in this year. Dave explained that families with more than one student can let the board know how they want the points distributed between their students. If the parents do not tell the board differently, parents’ points will be distributed equally between students. 501c Tax Status: The city comptroller said the city is qualified for the 501c status. Our group is part of a city committee and we are qualified for 501c status. Library Display: Dave suggested putting Sister Cities’ items in a display at the library. The group needs to put a proposal together if we would like to have a Sister Cities display with gifts from Tokai-mura at the library. Japanese Lessons: Junko is willing to provide Japanese lessons to groups of 5-6 students for $15 and hour plus a small per student cost. The group decided to wait to decide on times for the lessons. Student Section of the Meeting (need to get from Dallin) Respect for the Aged Day – Nicholas  Started in 1966 and was held on September 15th   Now held on the 3rd Monday of September due to the Happy Monday System. (The Happy Monday System moved holidays to Mondays to create 3 day weekends)  The Japanese government gave silver sake cups to people were over 100 years old.  The government reduced the size of the cups in 2009 to save money.  In 2014, 29,357 people received cups. This lead the government to consider making the cups of a different material or just sending a letter. Japanese Phrases – Dallin We played a game reviewing these 16 different phrases. 1. Toire wa dokodesuka? Where is the bathroom? 2. Genkl desuka? How are you? 3. Onakaga suita? Are you hungry? 4. Cho kawaii!! – Super cute! 5. Korewa nandesuka? - What is this? 6. Korewa......desu. This is bla bla bla. 7. Watasino shumiwa ..... My hobby is bla bla bla. 8. Naruhodo! I see 9. Watashimo onajidesu. I am the same or Me too. 10.Sorena. – I hear you 11.Dame. – no 12.Daijyoubu – OK 13.Kono credit card daijyoubu desuka? Is this card ok? 14.Mizu.-water 15.Toriniku. - Chicken 16.Shi/Yon. - 4 Motion to adjourn was made by Mario and seconded by Ness.