Ng in Japan

Colfax High School junior Ysabeaux Ng said she didn’t get homesick at all during her six-week trip to Japan.

“The time flew by,” she said.

She was one of 14 students in the United States selected for an FCCLA scholarship exchange trip to Japan.

She landed at Narita Airport on the far east side of Tokyo where her host family met her.

Besides the host father and mother, Takashi and Yuko Fujita, the family included a boy, Hajime, 17, and his sister, Sae, 13. Takashi is a television network social consultant and Yuko is a stay-at-home mother.

“I immediately fell in love with them,” Ysabeaux said....