Mum's Youth Hostel - open all hours!

Mum's Youth Hostel is officially open again.

I love to travel

but when we can't get away

we do the next best thing...

We have the world come to us!

We have our twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth

Japanese Homestay guests living with us at the moment.

Three lovely student nurses from Kyoto

who have never been out of Japan.

We do love the Japanese

Always so polite and calm.

Well, until they accidentally set off the burglar alarm...

then there is much shrieking and panic

on a par with the din from the alarm,

but generally it's quiet and I adore hearing their giggles!

It's a big deal to come to Australia.

They arrive with enormous suitcases

often bigger than them.

Empty of course,

as they are here to learn English, to study

and for shopping!

On the drive home on day one

I warm them about the Crazy Poodle

our over enthusiastic pocket rocket of a dog.

The Crazy Poodle launches himself

with all his love and affection,

usually at the one girl who has requested a pet free house.

'Welcome Home' I say cheerily!

Their English is often extremely limited

but somehow we get by.

If the going gets really tough we resort to a translator

but mostly I'm become (even if I say so myself)

quite good at acting out what I'm asking.

It's my version of charades or

an adapted version of 'animal, vegetable or mineral?'...

'The dog is barking at a possum in the tree'

more giggles and get me an Equity card please!

I really must do an teaching English as a foreign language course.

I'm getting too old to be seen through the windows

on all fours barking at my husbands leg,

what the neighbours must think!

Oh the fun we have...

Our visitors book is filling up.

Over the past six years

we have opened our home to visitors

from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, America, United Kingdom,

Canada, India, and Bali.

Never a dull moment here!

J is for Japanese

Linking with Alphabe Thursday Thank you to Jenny!

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