{"id":39284,"date":"2014-02-27T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=39284"},"modified":"2014-02-27T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:51:54","slug":"shiga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/shiga-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shiga, Japan<!--more--><br \/>\nHigh school students currently in grades 9, 10 and 11 are invited to apply to a statewide student exchange program that would take them to Shiga, Japan, our Sister State, for two weeks during the summer of 2014. The program is the Michigan-Shiga Student Exchange Program, a Michigan-Shiga Sister State Program, co-sponsored by Lansing Community College in collaboration with Shiga Prefecture Board of Education. Fifteen high school students from Michigan are selected to participate each year and paired with Japanese students with similar interests.<br \/>\nThe Michigan students will live with host families and attend school with the Shiga exchange students from June 25 &#8211; July 14, 2014. Japanese students will arrive on August 28, 2014 and spend two weeks with the Michigan families, attending school with their Michigan partners, departing on September 14, 2014.<br \/>\nThe cost for each student participating in the program is $3,065.00. Any student who is adventurous, likes to meet new people and is open-minded qualifies for the program. Knowledge of the Japanese language is helpful, but not necessary. There is an orientation April 26, 2014 to acquaint selected students and parents with Japanese customs and basic language.<br \/>\nStudents interested in applying can receive an application and descriptive brochure online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mishiga.org\/programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.mishiga.org\/programs\/<\/a>. If you have further questions, please call the program coordinator at 517.388.1308 or email <a href=\"mailto:mcdon288@gmail.com\">mcdon288@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiga, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}