Exchange student Mika Nakashima’s time in Hamburg, Pennsylvania was short but the gift she left to the town and her classmates will help us to remember her time here for many years to come. The young artist loved the movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’ so she decided to paint a mural depicting the characters of the film in a place where the town could enjoy it when they went to the movies at the Hamburg Strand.
Mika was a student at Hamburg for one year and attended 12th grade with the 2007 graduating class. She recently moved back to her hometown of Tokyo, Japan but she left her beautiful painting for us to remember her by.