What activities to do with exchange study staying with me?
- Sunday Nov 22,2009 10:01 AM
- By diddy
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Next year i want the exchange student to stay with me, but we live in a very small town and i was wondeing what we should do with them? I live in AZ, so we will take them to the grand canyon, bu what else should we do??? My family is just my parents and i so i dont want to to get bored staying with us or anything like that.
Just let me know what you think or what you would want to do if you were the exchange student.
Thanks!
Bored, Bu, Exchange Student, Exchange Study, Grand Canyon, Parents
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You have to remember that hosting an exchange student is not about entertaining them. It’s about sharing your culture and having the opportunity to learn something about theirs. Therefore, they should be prepared to live your lifestyle and experience your family and your culture in much the same way you do. Most of their time will be spent either in school or studying or involved in school activities. They should be encouraged to make friends separate and apart from yours and to choose school or community based activities separate from yours. With all of that, there should actually be very little opportunity for you to have to figure out what to do with them or worry about them being bored.
You will have only 3 or 4 weeks during the course of the entire school year, during fall, winter, and spring breaks, to have the opportunity to "entertain" them. Generally, we take our students to California (Los Angeles-Disneyland and/or San Diego), to the Grand Canyon, to Sedona, to Tucson/Tombstone, and that’s about it. Some kids have been more interested in travel than others, some have been easier to travel with than others. But we have never put a huge focus on entertaining them. It’s not what an exchange program is supposed to be about.
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