Sakurako “Sakura” Kamitani, the Roswell Rotary Club’s exchange student from Japan, arrived at midnight Saturday (July 30).
Greeting Sakura at the Roswell Air Center terminal was a group led by club president Bianca Cheney.
The greeters included Karl Hendricks and Brice Hager, longtime family friends who are learning to speak Japanese; Colton Felmar, Roswell Rotary Club’s outbound student to Sweden in 2019-20 from New Mexico Military Institute; and host parents Mark and Maria Bleth.
Sakura is 16 years old with an older brother and younger sister. Her historic hometown has about 470,000 people. Her father is a Rotarian and also was an exchange student many years ago.
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Welcoming Sakura to Roswell are (from left) Karl Hendricks, Brice Hager, Colton Felmar, Mark Bleth, Sakura, Maria Bleth, and Rotarians Richard Madison, JP Cheney, and Bianca Cheney.
