Ferndale Students Raising Money for Japan Trip
A silent auction and spaghetti dinner will be held on Friday.
Ferndale High School sophomore Rebecca Phoenix is dreaming of being able to "experience the wonder of Japan." Phoenix got into the Japanese culture through anime and enjoys researching the country and reading about Japanese mythology in her spare time. She has the chance to go on a trip to Japan this summer, but she and her classmates first have to come up with $5,000 each. Phoenix is one of several Ferndale students in Karen Kaczmarek's Japanese class at the six-school consortium Center for Advanced Studies and the Arts, or CASA, located in Oak Park. She and about nine other students from her class would be embarking on a 12-day trip to Japan with Kaczmarek, who has taken three other groups of students there in previous years. "This would…
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