Hironobu Sugawara, a member of the Kesennuma assembly and head of the delegation for the Home-Stay Program, speaks to guests and participants during a pool party at Camp Foster, Japan, Aug. 8, 2011. The pool party was held as part of the Home-Stay Program, a four-day cultural exchange program for children from Oshima district, Kesennuma and Miyagi prefecture. Those areas were heavily damaged in the Tohoku earthquake March 11.