21 de febrero

Dear Mailing List members,

Hello, this is Kiyomi Nagakawa from Youth Summit for Environment in KOBE steering committee. I am so excited and thrilled to meet you all in person at the summit. I would like to make some important announcements to you all. Please give me a moment to introduce myself first.

My primary job is to gather and organize all personal information and make arrangements for plane tickets and lodging. All your personal information is confidential, and we only share them between Yoko-san, our office, and the travel agency (JTB).

The first announcement I would like to make is about the registration forms. In order to guarantee your stay in Japan an enjoyable, unforgettable, and impeccable one, now we would like to move on to travelling and lodging arrangements.

At this moment, I have received registration forms from 15 countries, and they are

Australia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Canada
Germany
Indonesia (supervisor's information missing)
Kenya
Mexico
Mongolia
Nepal(supervisor's and some of children's information missing)
Russia
South Africa
Taiwan
United Kingdom,
United States

Here is the IMPORTANT part.
For those of you, who has not sent the registration forms yet, please send them to Yoko by the end of this month, February 28th. Please do not worry about passport numbers that are in the process of issuance. We are proceeding this qualification procedure under the same condition for both overseas and domestic children. We are running out of time, and if we do NOT receive any information before the 28th, I’m afraid that you will be disqualified from participating this summit.
So please keep the deadline!
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Secondly, as Yoko had sent rough information about essay writing on the 16th, I would like to inform you more in detail. The essay writing part gives us a chance to know the children’s fluency of English, creativity, and passion/ interest in environmental issues. The Japanese children go through the same process as well. They turn in their essays to us, and we will pick 30 children with fluent English, creativity, and passion for environment. The deadline for Japanese children is February 29th. Since overseas children have different educational systems and backgrounds, we have set the deadline for your final draft to the 15th of March.

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Please send us all essays without any corrections by the teachers. It is very important and is the only source for us to know their ability to communicate.
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Rough draft – either an outline or in several sentences Due February 28th

Final draft- 1500-2000 words maximum double spaced, about 2 pages Deadline - March 14th ( deadline has changed from the end of March to 14th)

Please send all essays and outlines directly to me,

Thank you for your patience and understanding.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Kiyomi Nagakawa
Kiyomi L Carter (Nagakawa)
G8 Youth Summit for Environment in KOBE