Friendship Celebration 2023 – Where Sushi Meets Borsch Outdoors
Please join us at our Sebastopol Word Friend Friendship Celebration – Where Sushi Meets Borsch Outdoors on April 23 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Road, Sebastopol. After a three-year break, we are excited to bring...
Reflections on the recent Takeo visit
I was pleased and honored to be invited to visit Japan as a member of the SWF adult delegation. Japan is a modern industrial and commercial success. We experienced and saw the private lives of the Japanese middle classes. Lives that reflect ancient traditions, ancient...
Exchange students from Japan visit Sebastopol this week
By David Abbott, Special to Sonoma West Times and News | Mar 28, 2017 Updated Mar 28, 2017 Three decades of ties strengthened by middle-schoolers For the past 32 years, Sebastopol has shared a very special relationship with its sister city Takeo City, Japan, so on...
Sebastopol World Friends return from Takeo City with presence
Republished with permission from Sonoma West Times & News Thursday, April 7, 2016 by Amie Windsor Sonoma West Staff Writer amie@sonomawest.com Sebastopol World Friends recently returned home from their trip to Takeo City, Japan in which 18 middle school students,...
Out and About
In a nutshell, the trip has been exhilarating, exciting, and extremely fun!! Today we shadowed at our students’ school and the teachers and students greeted us so warmly. It was really cool to spot all of the differences as well as the similarities between our...
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