Anyone here go on an exchange when they were younger or allow your children to go? I am looking for insights, experience, etc and trust CP to either allay my concerns or amplify them. I expect both.
My daughter wants to go to Spain. So far she has gotten her placement desire. She has the opportunity for Valencia. Wonderful city.
The Spanish student would come here in August, my daughter would go there in March.
My daughter, her mother, and I had many talks, and we have agreed to let her go.
My daughter will be in grade 9. My first concern is of course that she is so young. However I do believe she will have an incredible experience.
My next concern is that I have been watching the movie Taken daily. I have started jogging, working out, and am working hard to develop my "particular set of skills." (Deadpool: at some point you just have to wonder if he's a bad parent!)
More seriously, if anyone has some ideas of things I should look into, questions I should ask, etc. I would love to hear some opinions.
Oh I almost forgot the best part. They just emailed today (which sort of spurred this reaching out to the CP minds) to say that they did not have a girl of the same age, would we accept a boy? He will be 15 when he arrives. He will be 16 when my daughter goes there. He has a sister the same age as my daughter.
The worst part of it all....his name is Manuel, and he is from Spain. If you like Fawlty Towers like I do...I don't think I can keep a a straight face.
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Well its great that you're getting a boy, just think of the amount of things that he can do around the house. Need to move a piano for no reason? Blammo, sell him out to your neighbors as cheap labor, profit.
I mean I did an exchange trip when I was in the same grade but it was only a few months to Montreal for French Immersion, but man did I party, and the family that I billeted with didn't care as long as I showed up once in a while.
I'm assuming that your going to be able to talk to whoever she's staying with and lay down any ground rules.
The other thing, is setting up a hard and fast communications schedule with your kid.
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Anyone here go on an exchange when they were younger or allow your children to go? I am looking for insights, experience, etc and trust CP to either allay my concerns or amplify them. I expect both.
My daughter wants to go to Spain. So far she has gotten her placement desire. She has the opportunity for Valencia. Wonderful city.
The Spanish student would come here in August, my daughter would go there in March.
My daughter, her mother, and I had many talks, and we have agreed to let her go.
My daughter will be in grade 9. My first concern is of course that she is so young. However I do believe she will have an incredible experience.
My next concern is that I have been watching the movie Taken daily. I have started jogging, working out, and am working hard to develop my "particular set of skills." (Deadpool: at some point you just have to wonder if he's a bad parent!)
More seriously, if anyone has some ideas of things I should look into, questions I should ask, etc. I would love to hear some opinions.
Oh I almost forgot the best part. They just emailed today (which sort of spurred this reaching out to the CP minds) to say that they did not have a girl of the same age, would we accept a boy? He will be 15 when he arrives. He will be 16 when my daughter goes there. He has a sister the same age as my daughter.
The worst part of it all....his name is Manuel, and he is from Spain. If you like Fawlty Towers like I do...I don't think I can keep a a straight face.
Okay, this made me laugh!
Good luck man, but I dont know anything about student exchanges.
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I went for a year in high school, so kinda different - and a long time ago. The world was pretty different then.
It was a fantastic experience though. Your horizons can’t help but get broader and I think that would still be true today. If it were my kid I’d think about how to be a safety net and not a safety blanket. Probably not an easy balance.
And don’t downplay getting your own Manuel. We didn’t do that part (so maybe I was more exiled than exchanged?) but I think that’d be awesome too.
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