This is Miho, she was our first exchange student from Japan. We had her stay with us for just under 2 weeks, in November 2005, she was so sweet. Communicating with Miho was a little difficult. Interestingly enough though we found that if we drew pictures for her, or wrote the words she was able to get the gist of what we were trying to say a whole lot better.
Whilst she was with us we took her to Gorge Wild life Park in the Adelaide Hills (see link for park) to enable her to mix with our Australian animals, you can tell she loved that experience by the photo.
We drove her to Waikerie in South Australia's Riverland where my sister lives to meet her family. It was hilarious really, Celina can be so loud and the Japanese aren't so used to being hugged and touched...the first time Celina saw her she went running up to her yelling out her name, frightened the life out of her..Miho virtually hid behind me until we could get her to understand that it was OK LOL. Whilst at Celina and John's though, we taught her how to cook her first Aussie BBQ, she loved doing this.
Cooking the BBQ
Miho with Celina
Miho had a lovely time at Celina's, Celina thought she was lovely because she was so girly and having two boys herself I think she found her quite "novel". It wasnt long after Melbourne Cup day that she was with us and Celina had made herself a hat. Miho just loved it and was so excited when Celina said that she could keep it, Miho loved anything pink.
Miho and Renee with her gorgeous hat!
We also took her to Bredyl's Reptile Park in Renmark, where she experienced her first snake holding. She was so scared, Renee didn't think much of that either. Funny though Aaron though it was fantastic.
At Bredyl's Reptile Park - Renmark
Our first experience of exchange was fantastic, hard work with the communication but we absolutely loved it. She was so delightful....we still occassionally get emails from her, which is just fab!
No comments:
Post a Comment