FOR the next 10 days, 17 Japanese students will have a special tour of Muswellbrook, courtesy of their Muswellbrook host families.
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The pupils will stay with a Muswellbrook High School child and their family throughout the stay.
”They’re from our sister school in Japan,” Muswellbrook High School Japanese teacher Bronwyn Tier said.
The schools have been partnering in the short exchange program for the past two decades.
Every two years, the Upper Hunter students visit the sites of Sayama Seiryo senior high school in the Saitama Prefecture.
Muswellbrook High will take a group of students to the Asian country in January.
“We go there, they come here,” Ms Tier said.
“All these [host] students here are studying Japanese with me.”
The travelling pupils will be treated to a range of Australian activities, including a dolphin cruise at Nelson Bay and a trip to Oakvale Farm.
They will also learn how to cook Anzac biscuits, how to play AFL, and participate in horse riding.