I've just had a phone call from Kana's teacher at her Japanese school to say that they won't allow her to be off school (in NZ) for more than 3 days and preferably only 2) so I'm not very happy to say the least - our plans were for her to be off for a grand total of 5 days - their reason is that she is there on a homestay for studying English and even when I pointed out the fact that she'll be going to my sisters and we'll be speaking English, he wouldn't budge so I have the choice of either changing all 3 of our tickets or keeping them as they are and saying she has a temperature and can't get back to Geraldine. It's times like this that Japan infuriates me. I'll phone her homestay mother today and see if she thinks the 'advisor' over there will check to see if she's back within 3 days and if not, I'll keep our tickets as they are. It's so frustrating.