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 Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:48 pm
So one of my residents, Yumi-san, is coming to stay with me during March break! I am so excited! xd
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:30 pm
 That's exciting! When I was a Junior in High School, my parents agreed to host a Japanese exchange student for the year. It was really exciting. My friends and I learned a lot about our own language and culture because of her.
She asked us what "sucks" meant because she was thinking like a vacuum and we were saying that class sucked, etc. So we had to try to explain what we really meant by that. That happened a lot. lol
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:55 pm
Ah that sounds so fun. >.< I would love to have a experience like that... Only I can never see that happening to me... I'm so envious of you..
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:51 pm
My parents only agreed because my brother had just gone off to college so we used his room. All they had to do was pay for food and stuff. For things like clothes or personal purchases, Shizuka had her dad's credit card. My parents are super generous though and bought her all the same sort of stuff they bough me (clothes and christmas presents and what not). I was a really fantastic experience though. I'd love to host a student when I have a solid income.
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:45 pm
That really is pretty cool, princess. I once almost had a Costa Rican exchange student, but she was denied access to the United States because something got backed up with her paperwork. My mother had gone out and bought her a comfortable down-comforter and everything. Oh well. I use it now as a mattress pad. I'm sure that Yumi will enjoy your hometown~
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:52 pm
Fun! My house is...well, small. And our guestroom no longer has a bed because we donated it to a group home. So yeah, no chance of anyone, much less a Japanese student, being able to live here. crying
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Strawberry Pocky Parade Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:54 pm
You sleep on the floaaar! Izumi-san Fun! My house is...well, small. And our guestroom no longer has a bed because we donated it to a group home. So yeah, no chance of anyone, much less a Japanese student, being able to live here. crying
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:57 pm
No room there either. We were planning on moving this summer (but now we're waiting another year...whatever...) so all the extra bedrooms (and I guess mine counts as extra now that I'm in college) have boxes in them. LOL Miss Chloie You sleep on the floaaar! Izumi-san Fun! My house is...well, small. And our guestroom no longer has a bed because we donated it to a group home. So yeah, no chance of anyone, much less a Japanese student, being able to live here. crying
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:36 pm
Hey at least you know you're moving! A guy I knew got a post card from his parents his freshman year saying, "Hey! We moved across the country!" We thought it was pretty hilarious. He was ticked. lol
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:16 pm
Jeez. That sucks for that guy. LOL I can't see my mom doing that though. She needs me to lug all the big boxes. XD
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:28 pm
thatd be so fuun : DD come to your door to see a person wrapped with pretty paper and and giant bow and having your parents say theyll stay with us ^- ^ i want an exchange student D:< if i did i want them to be uber cute though xD
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:39 am
@ Sora - We got our exchange student through AFS. They sent us an email with a few students we could choose from (I think we specified a few nationalities when we applied) with little bios and a photo. So essentially we shopped for one. ^_^; So you totally could pick one based on looks. lol
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:06 pm
mugoi_usagi @ Sora - We got our exchange student through AFS. They sent us an email with a few students we could choose from (I think we specified a few nationalities when we applied) with little bios and a photo. So essentially we shopped for one. ^_^; So you totally could pick one based on looks. lol o.o That's so cool.... I didn't know you could do that... Actually I didn't even know you could find exchange students on the internet. xD
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:15 pm
Lol you can find anything on the internet now-a-days. you can find jobs, so in hindsight it makes sense. But we all have 20/20 hindsight right? lol
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Strawberry Pocky Parade Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:21 pm
For real though, I think that it would be really shallow to choose someone based on looks. confused
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