club info

we meet every week on mondays in room d203.
our sponsor is ms. woods.

the broadneck japan club organizes cultural activities and student exchange programs between our school and sagami-ohno high school in kanagawa, japan (our unofficial "sister school"). it's a relatively new club - we just started in the fall of 2008.

about 20 broadneck students went on an exchange trip to japan in the summer of 2008. we spent a few days sightseeing in tokyo, a week as exchange students living with students of sagami-ohno high school, and another few days in hakone. in the spring of 2009, we hosted japanese students - 22 students and 2 teachers spent a week with us in march. we also hosted 18 students and 2 teachers in the spring of 2010.

during our meetings, we spend a good deal of time planning the trip to japan and the week that the japanese students visit annapolis. we also spend a lot of time discussing and studying japanese culture. there is plenty to do for students who don't plan to travel to japan or host japanese students - we have parties at which we eat japanese food, we have ddr and guitar hero tournaments, and we stay in contact with students at sagami-ohno through a pen-pal program. in the past, we've also had japanese teachers from the community college come and teach us japanese.

clubs at broadneck participate in a hallway-decorating competition for the homecoming festivities, so this is our biggest concern in the fall! our hallway is known to be a great success - in both of the years that we've participated, we've won first place!

our meetings are also simply a place for people who love japan to come and share their love of the culture. although we make an effort to separate ourselves from the anime club (we believe there is much more to japan than anime!), we welcome people who are anime fans but would like to learn more about japanese culture.

if you have any questions, feel free to email us at japan@broadneck.org.