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re: Anyone have experience with housing exchange kids?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:32 am to highcotton2
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:32 am to highcotton2
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But I do remember one girl from Germany that stayed with a really strict, religious family. She liked to smoke and they were having none of that.
Same thing happened to a German girl and a French girl (different hosts)at our school.
French girl seemed pretty miserable the entire time she was here because she never got to go do anything unless school related (either academic or extracurricular activities related to the school allowed; no recreational teams or groups). I think she went to one dance, homecoming.
But the German girl didn't give a shite about her host family's beliefs of "acceptable" behavior and the rules they had, or their interpretation of the Bible. Told them "I'm going to hell anyway, might as well remain Catholic.
That fraulein would be at every party, bonfire, pool/hot tub night, and dance we had. Her host "sister" in the same grade never attended a single one of those things throughout the entirety of high school.
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:42 am to BoomerandSooner
The Fifth Element
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:44 am to goosenecktrailer
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English was pretty bad so everything was pretty lost in translation
Speaking of lost in translation: the French kid that lived with my best friend's family had a little "welcome" party so he could meet their families and some of us friends.
My friend has family from Kaplan who were there and they started talking to the French kid in Cajun French.
He looked at us and said, "I have no idea what he just said. That's not English is it?"
" Nope. That's French."
The only person born and raised in France simply replied "That's not French."
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:51 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
Prior to covid the local HS had a few exchange students every year. The ones from Europe and even some of the ones from third world shitholes, were typically 1-2 years ahead academically from where the American kids were.
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 5:58 am to goosenecktrailer
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everything was pretty lost in translation when trying to explain how inappropriate certain things were that he did.
My high school French teacher told us a story what happened to her in her visit to France during an exchange program she did.
She was from South Lafourche so she had an understanding and background of Cajun French. So while living with this family she came across this beautiful young girl and said she looked like a doll but in Cajun French.
But in France as the language evolved, that Cajun French word for doll became known as the word for prostitute. So she called this girl a whore, imagine the embarrassment she had.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:23 am to FLTech
Way more expensive to adopt “American” kid.
Same financial reasons and way less construction code building Brad Pitt Katrina homes too.
Always enjoy a good story about church groups spreading word of god in china or some shite and end up being kidnapped by the other bad gods.
Same financial reasons and way less construction code building Brad Pitt Katrina homes too.
Always enjoy a good story about church groups spreading word of god in china or some shite and end up being kidnapped by the other bad gods.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:25 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
Hosted a German 16 year old for one year and it was a great experience. That was back in 2010 , she came back to visit in 2012 and I went to Germany in 2016 to visit and meet her family. We still keep in touch and I plan on going nah to Germany in 2028
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:36 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
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a kid talked about having exchange kids live with him, and something about that seems pretty cool to me.
I've known several families that did that.
All were greats experiences.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:41 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
I always wonder about how an exchange student is supposed to get around if there's no public transportation and the host family isn't obliging. Our neighbors hosted a young couple from Russia about 30 years ago. The neighbors were older and never went anywhere so we ended up taking the couple out with us. Their favorite places we visited were the library and a game arcade.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:01 am to FLTech
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I don't understand why Americans never want to help out Americans. Why wouldn't you want to adopt an American kid? And I don't mean this to be a smartass.. I'm just curious It's like my Church.. all of their money trips are overseas to rebuild things... It annoys me that they never go to low income parts in our own ountry to help rebuild things and it's always a select group of people that go on these long trips overseas. I just find it odd
While I generally agree with your sentiment, I think you’re missing OP’s point. He doesn’t want to adopt anyone, foreign or domestic. He wants reasonably high functioning people to come visit, stay a few months or a year, then leave. There isn’t much of a market for that outside of foreign exchange students.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:51 am to FLTech
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I don't understand why Americans never want to help out Americans. Why wouldn't you want to adopt an American kid? And I don't mean this to be a smartass.. I'm just curious
It's like my Church.. all of their money trips are overseas to rebuild things... It annoys me that they never go to low income parts in our own ountry to help rebuild things and it's always a select group of people that go on these long trips overseas.
I just find it odd
Fair. For me it would be two-fold. I do think there is a benefit to giving our kids some exposure outside of the US. I feel it had a profound impact on me growing up so since I don’t think we’ll have the ability to live somewhere overseas, this feels like a way to give a small version of that.
The bigger reason, though, is the permanence of the decision. Sponsoring an exchange student seems like 2% as big of a commitment as adopting a person for life. I mean, if the kid is a nightmare or we find out it isn’t our thing, then it will be over after that semester or whether. If you adopt someone, that’s for life. That’s something I’ve never been able to get comfortable with when it wasn’t someone we created.
It’s less about foreign vs domestic and more temporary vs permanent.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:56 am to Joshjrn
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While I generally agree with your sentiment, I think you’re missing OP’s point. He doesn’t want to adopt anyone, foreign or domestic. He wants reasonably high functioning people to come visit, stay a few months or a year, then leave. There isn’t much of a market for that outside of foreign exchange students.
Exactly
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:12 am to magildachunks
Sorry, but the only one we have had that I didn't like was a girl from Denmark. She was a pain in the arse. Her dad said she was a pain in the arse as well. The school thought she was a pain in the arse, and she was sent home after 2 months in the US.
We had a guy from Taiwan that was pretty cool, but he would bury himself in his room and play video games all the time. He never wanted to participate in any activities with other kids.
All of the other 6 kids were great. A German girl moved back to our town after she graduated from college, and she ended up getting US citizenship. My favorite was a girl from Japan. She works for an English newspaper in Tokyo now.
I had a Russian girl spend a summer with us in 2001 or so. She was from Stalingrad and knew zero about WW2. I gave her history lessons and she was totally shocked. She knew their were a lot of statues around Volgograd, but she had no clue what they were about or that the city had ever been called Stalingrad.
We had a guy from Taiwan that was pretty cool, but he would bury himself in his room and play video games all the time. He never wanted to participate in any activities with other kids.
All of the other 6 kids were great. A German girl moved back to our town after she graduated from college, and she ended up getting US citizenship. My favorite was a girl from Japan. She works for an English newspaper in Tokyo now.
I had a Russian girl spend a summer with us in 2001 or so. She was from Stalingrad and knew zero about WW2. I gave her history lessons and she was totally shocked. She knew their were a lot of statues around Volgograd, but she had no clue what they were about or that the city had ever been called Stalingrad.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:23 am to Jim Rockford
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typically 1-2 years ahead academically from where the American kids were.
seems to have always been the case, I was in engineering at LSU and there were more foreign students than US students, all of them coasted through the calcs, physics, and other core courses because they'd had that in junior high school, I was playing catch up to them but got quite a bit of help from them too
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:27 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
Every single one I've seen friends take in is an OT 10 from Europe.
I dont want to end up with a visit from Chris Hanson so I cant take the temptation.
I dont want to end up with a visit from Chris Hanson so I cant take the temptation.
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