There are several little side stories that I don't manage to get into the blog - when I have a moment I'll be adding them...
This one is about Geraldine and our host mother...
Geraldine has traveled around the world visiting at least 60 different countries. This is her first time to Japan and she gets a kick out of heading out on her own when she gets the chance and checking things out.
Over a couple of days she tried to get our host mother to let her borrow a bicycle. She was turned down every time, but was still persistent. She turned it into a joke = and we thought the host mother got it :-)
Then Geraldine noticed a massage place across the street from the house. She talked to our host mother and sister about it - asking if they knew anything about it. The hemmed and hawwed a bit - but eventually said they didn't. Geraldine said she would go check it out later. We headed upstairs - as usual around 8pm - so she decided she wanted to check out the massage place. But when she went downstairs - our house mother seemed shocked - wondering where she was going. As Geraldine explained - our house mother seemed to get angrier and angrier - telling her she should not go and needed to check with another Rotary member before going over there. But as the conversation progressed - she changed her mind and told Geraldine (by the way this was all spoken through a translator) she could not go at all and needed to drop the subject.
Geraldine seemed a bit upset at the time, worried she had crossed a line. But the next morning everything was fine - and trust me - our host mother LOVED her. So, it was fine. But it was so funny - our host mother was so concerned about our safety - she didn't want us doing anything off the books!
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