Who has ever hosted an exchange student or been one?

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When I was in high school we hosted a few diffrent exchange students with this organization https://www.yfuusa.org/.

Mostly it was fun and a good experience. We hosted a boy from chili and he did not click with our family so he ended up switching families and getting along with them well. He was just quiet and our house was not.
We also hosted Two boys and a girl from Germany, one girl from Finland, and a girl from Japan. Those all went really Well.

It's something that might be fun to do again but I think if we do it we will wait till our kids are older.

When I was in high school we hosted a few diffrent exchange students with this organization https://www.yfuusa.org/. Mostly it was fun and a good experience. We hosted a boy from chili and he did not click with our family so he ended up switching families and getting along with them well. He was just quiet and our house was not. We also hosted Two boys and a girl from Germany, one girl from Finland, and a girl from Japan. Those all went really Well. It's something that might be fun to do again but I think if we do it we will wait till our kids are older.

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In highschool I befriended an exchange student from Slovakia. He came over to hang out after school one day and my friends and I asked him if he smoked pot. He said yes so we smoked a bunch of it with him and then dropped him off with his host family. They freaked out on him and had him deported. Oops

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lol actually?

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Yeah that happened. I feel bad but he said it was no big deal in his country

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damn that sucks. But hope that weed changed his perception of things

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Not your fault, I'm sure he knew that was a risk.

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I wanted to be one in high school, my parents said no. I hosted one when I had two children, one in high school and one in elementary school. It was a girl from Belgium. She developed a big crush on Mr. notme. Awkward. Her dad came and visited over spring break and wanted to cook Easter dinner for us. Wanted to make rabbit. I refused. We were NOT going to eat the Easter bunny for Easter dinner! Awkwardness ran in their family. The girl was never happy. We didn’t keep in touch after she left.

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Wow, That would be awkward.
One of the German boys devolped a crush on me, he didn't tell me till he was leaving though and I just as nice is I could told him I thought of him as a brother.

His parents came to visit at the end of his stay and then they went and did some US site seeing. We had the German girls parents came too and we traveled with them a little bit if I'm remembering correctly.

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I was an exchange student. But I did it in uni. Hands down best half year of my life. Do it. Especially if you've got a few mates with ya, and the country has a low cost of living. It also expands your view of the world: it's bigger than just your small town or city.

I didn't do it in HS, but wouldn't it kinda suck having people (who aren't your parents) telling you what to do?

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Idk, I never asked any of them that. Really in hs we have people other than our parents telling us way, like teachers?

My cousin was an exchange student in hs, she had a good time and went back and visted the family last yr.

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I facilitated a German students work experience and thesis practical. Our age difference had him dragging me to music festivals and me dragging him outdoors with my kid. He didn't drink, I drink. Our politics were polar but we got along well. Its a myth that Germans have no sense of humor. I'm still in contact with him and enjoy sending him Hitler memes.