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Host Father out of the country

Host Father awakes in his hotel in Cork, Ireland for another day of work.

Back to school

Host Father headed off to the airport again whilst everyone else slept in a little later before starting off another school week.

Snailbeach

Visited the old lead mine of Snailbeach and walked over The Stiperstones.

The second day

Walking Up at 7am, a quick breakfast and into the car off to Julia’s. Julia and Peter and their daughter (all of whom, I should mention, are unusually tall – not that we had warned Mutty of this) live in an old house on the edges of a typically English village in the middle of

Big Breakfast and Karate

We went out for a traditional cooked breakfast, walked the dog and then went for karate training.

The first day

Exercise Host Father was recently persuaded by a friend, Julia, that he needed to exercise more (actually, Host Father already knew this but was very reluctant to do anything about it) and proposed that, as she also needed to take more exercise, every Saturday and Sunday morning commencing at 8am he and she should meet

Home for the first time

The car journey in the dark from the airport to home was uneventful. Mutty, understandably, dozed for most of the trip. She tried her best to be sociable but it was not easy for her.

The first meeting

AFS “handed” Mutty over in the evening and Host Mother and Younger Host Sister took Mutty away for refreshments and to start to get to know her. It is hard to know who was the more nervous. Whilst Mutty is certainly more brave to travel to the other side of the world into a completely different culture, Host Mother was also taking on a lot.