Video games seem to be a medium understood by all teenage boys, no matter where in the world they come from.
Issei Watanabe and Yuma Nishimura, both 14, are being hosted by the Somerville family during a week-long exchange with Marlborough Boys' College.
Harrison Somerville, 15, can't speak Japanese and the two exchange students have limited English, but the three boys were communicating well through a video game when The Marlborough Express arrived.
Issei and Yuma are among a group of 42 students from Jissen Gakuen, a Japanese secondary school, visiting Marlborough and are being hosted by Boys' College students.
The students arrived yesterday and have planned activities throughout the week, but will be with their host families during the weekend.
Issei and Yuma were spectators at the Tasman Makos rugby game at Lansdowne Park last night.
Neither had ever played rugby and had seen it only on TV.
CULTURE EXCHANGE: Japanese students Issei Watanabe and Yuma Nishimura, both 14, play video games with their host brother Harrison Somerville, 15, centre. The boys from Japanese secondary school Jissen Gakuen are staying in Blenheim as part of a week-long cultural exchange with Marlborough Boys' College.
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