Findus Fop wrote:
Squirt wrote:
We're doing some "Host Family" thing for international students for the local fancy-pants boarding school, and we have our first assignment this weekend. Two 16 year old girls from China. I'm cacking myself! What do young people like? Will they just sit in their rooms playing Minecraft or will I have to speak to them? What if they ask me to help with their homework or to give them advice on boys!? ARRRRHHSGDGHASDcv .xzxcvh.....!!!@4one!!
ooh, let us know how it goes. We've been idly sizing up the idea in Brighton where there seem to be millions of international students from China.
But I suspect they won't be wanting to spending any more time in your company than you feel comfortable in theirs. They probably just want a room to chill out and do teenage things in.
So, learnings from the experience:
* Our students were basically happy to lounge about and watch Chinese Netflix. They quite happy to come shopping with us and chat and so forth, but basically didn't want to do much else
* They chuffing *LOVE* pizza.
* There was some miscommunication between the hosting org and the school - taxis came a bit late and so on. Not a big deal, but might be a pain if you had other stuff going on.
* Two 16 year old girls, who probably weigh less than I do combined, can eat an unholy quantity of food.
It all seemed to go ok and we're probably doing it again soon!