This afternoon Sean and I went to his school to pick up our Japanese students who will be joining our family for the next 4 days (they leave early Wednesday morning).They had a brief Welcome Ceremony and then divided the schools up into different parts of the school and did the student/host family matching in smaller chunks. There are 255 Japanese girls in this tour. So we were in the gym and watching all the Kichijo students sitting on the bleachers, and then they would come down and meet their host family when their names were called. It was really cute...the girls bounce down the bleachers, bounce across the floor, and give their hosts a big hug. These Japanese aren't reserved like I thought they were. So when our names were called, we walk over and I give both girls a hug, and then Sean hugs them and all the girls in the bleachers giggle.
We came home and the girls got a very exuberant welcome from the rest of the family. They settled in, plied us with gifts...very yummy candy like Lee used to bring home from his trips to Japan, origami paper which the girls have been trying to learn all evening long, chop sticks, and more. We had an easy dinner of broccoli soup and make-yer-own deli sandwiches and then the girls played with the Littles while I cleaned up.
Right now the Littles are asleep, and Fuko and Saori are watching a scary movie with Dylan and Haley. Dylan and Haley decided to stay around home tonight instead of driving into Vancouver to go to Fright Night which has worked out very well for the Japanese girls. Tomorrow we'll do some shopping and then Sean is going to escort them to a musical performance at Poppy in the evening.
