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Penthesilea:
For our American group a hike with picnic had been planned for yesterday. Sadly, it poured down yesterday morning so the hike was cancelled and they simply met for a picnic somewhere.
At picking up my exchange girl:
Me: How was it?
C: Boring. That wasn't a picnic. There were no hotdogs, burgers and stuff. We only had the food we had brought ourselves and there weren't any games.
:laugh:
Wellllll, sometimes there are cultural differences. ;D
The hiking was supposed to represent the entertainment part, and since it fell flat, the kids had to entertain themselves. The German kids didn't mind that they could just hang around, being lazy and getting into talking 'n all. The American kids awaited the teachers to pull off some impromtu entertainment programm and were bored to death when they didn't.
CellarDweller:
:laugh:
Funny story Chrissi, although I have to say, I would've considered that a picnic. "Hamburgers and hot dogs nad stuff" to me is more BBQ than picnic.
Penthesilea:
Now I have a second exchange student, lol :laugh:
One of them doesn't get along too well with their host family and didn't want to go on a weekend-trip with them, even though she had happily agreed to it beforehand.
That's how come I end up with two American teenagers for the weekend. To say it with George Takei: Oh myyy. ;D
CellarDweller:
Front-Ranger:
Good luck with your exchange student, er, students, Chrissi! One came to stay with us from Japan for a summer. We were perhaps not ideally matched because the Japanese girl was 16 and my kids were 7 and 10 years old. Also, at that time, I didn't have any experience with teenagers, so that led to a few interesting escapades. One of the more interesting cultural differences was that the Japanese students were very reticent and shy. I remember a buffet dinner where we couldn't get the students to step up to the table and help themselves to food. We ended up having to practically shoo and drag them to the table!
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