When Kieran got home...

I haven't blogged much about Kieran's trip- I was kind of hoping that he would do a guest blog but no such luck as there are extremely important things to do like facebook, farmville, playstation sport and school (note sarcasm here). I am hoping to get a photobook done in the next few days while they are on special but in the meantime...

The first thing he did was unload a truckload of Japanese 'stuff'. We had all sorts of gifts from Kieran's very generous host family and then presents from Kieran himself- the lounge ended up looking like a bomb site.

It was all very interesting.

Sushi erasers.

Blow guns.

I said bombsite right?

One well travelled box of weetbix- which I am pleased to say he didn't feel the need to eat and also a little concerned- who needs cereal when pizza is on offer (for breakfast!)

And then he watched the rugby highlights on You tube.

While Will posted Japanese coins into the Yan & Mar money box kids (Yanmar is the Japanese host dad's workplace).

And then he got on facebook and life resumed normality.

To be fair he had told us a lot over the phone and he did talk all the way back from the airport. Showing the kids the photos on his camera. (He also came back with an album full of photos that his host family gave him). Other than that he didn't say much other than it was hot. His host family was 'too' caring. And he found communication a bit of a struggle. Especially if his name came up in a conversation that was in Japanese and there was laughter- he felt a little paranoid. He took the following day off school supposedly to recover and catch up some sleep- but in actual fact he wanted the other boy from his class that went to be the one in the limelight so he didn't have to be. It was an interesting reaction and we felt like he didn't seem to appreciate the opportunity that he got, which is a bit sad really. Hopefully he will be able to look back on it in time and realise how cool it was. On the plus side his kiwi 'rugby dad' said he was without a doubt the best behaved and most polite kid on the tour- which is pretty cool.
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