Wynn's International Bed & Breakfast, kindof...

The month of March has been a fun & interesting month for our family, as we have hosted 3 different students from Japan this month! We enjoyed every one of them, but Emi Kitamori stole our hearts. She is 20 years old, and studying Nursing at a women's college in Japan. Their trip here was to observe medical procedures & medical-related programs here in America. She just fit right into our family! She was so cheerful, always smiling & out-going. (Which isn't typical of Japanese people.) Her English was very good, so that made it easy for all the kids to communicate with her too. Liesel and Emi became very close. She was so patient, as Liesel was always talking to her or showing or doing something with Emi when she arrived home each night. We took her to the morning broadcast of "Music & the Spoken Word" at the Tabernacle on Temple Square on Sunday & she had a wonderful experience! When she came out of the Tabernacle she said "That was so wonderful!! I have chicken-skin!"(The Japanese word for 'goosebumps' literally translates to 'chicken skin' in English). Later I heard her explain her feelings in Japanese to a teacher from her school that was also there that morning. She told her she has never had that feeling, or chicken-skin all over her entire body in her life! Anyway, it was a great day! Another fun thing we did, was to go to the Olympic Park. We were lucky enough to be there to see several Comet bobsleds race by. It was exciting! It was so hard to say good-bye & many tears were shed when she left. We are hoping that we will meet again someday. She knows she can always come back to her home with us in Utah. It was a pleasure to be her family while she was here! Her are some of the cute pictures we took while she was here. Also, some pictures of the 2 boys, Gen & Yuuki that stayed with us this month.