Foreign Exchange students

There is a long-time Team Groke running gag about how all foreign exchange students like Depeche Mode. I am glade to have it confirmed.

We got two French teenagers who were very helpful and friendly, tried to engage whole family in conversation, gave us a nasty-looking tea- towel as a present, etc. etc. Then they went and we discovered one of the fuckers had nicked my new walkman.

When I went over there (not to the same people or else I would have made off with much swag) I had a Hadean time, mostly stuck in the back of a car while little Henri was driven to and from endless piano lessons in the suburbs of Paris. Little Henri showed me his ordinateur but I was not allowed to touch it. It was probably an Oric.

My German exchange partner was quite cool. While my school chums did nice organised things in the evenings like going bowling or to the cinema, I stuck with Britte, went to parties, drank more than I'd ever drunk before and almost lost my virginity to somebody who said "I like you" and nothing else all night (we spoke the language of lurve, or at least of snogging).

I can't remember the name of my French exchange girl or very much about the exchange itself except that she took me to the appartement of a friend who tried to impress me by playing the first nine notes of Fields of Joy by Lenny Kravitz on his geetar.

This thread calls for an excerpt from Nick D's French Exchange From Hell Diary.

Reporting from the back side: my Brit exchange was a lovely female version of what someone defined as a Kev. She introduced me to the use of the pill, nonetheless she had a baby called Callum at 18. She wore very sophisticated, enhancing bras while my mum still purchased thermal tshirts for moi.

I still keep the Bros ticket to the concert we went to together.Good luck Andrea, wherever you are.(oh no, this thread has got me all sentimental!)

My American exchange bloke was called Edward Woodward (no word of lie) despite being 2 years older he was possibly the most immature person I'd ever met, got absolutely rat-arsed on two vodka and oranges while we were drinking pints of good manly bitter. Then he slammed my head in a car door.

When I went over to Florida on the return leg, people asked me who stayed with me, when I told them they just laughed.

Anyway, Madchen has good exchange student stories, where is she?

In high school my boyfriend's family had a french exchange student who looked like Anna Kornikouva and was really, really dumb. She actually picked up a squirrel and tried to pet it and it bit her and we ended up having to take her to the hospital.

I realize that last sentence sounded like Ralph Wiggum. Oh well...

She picked up a squirrel??? What is she, snow white?

Like I said, she was really dumb.

Does France not have squirrels? This seems unlikely, so I blame her stupidity.

How the hell did she manage to pick up a squirrel in the first place? They're twitchy little buggers.

especially when they run up your leg and onto your chest when they're trying to get at your crisps in Hyde Park.

That's what I don't understand. We were walking along this street with a bunch of shops, and the next thing I know she had scooped up this squirrel! I don't know if city squirrels are slower/more stupid because of all of the pollution, or what.

she is at one with nature = she is very stupid

What a hilarious story, Nicole! And you never shared until now, hmph.

Never was a foreign exchange student, never had one over, but it would have been a neat experience if we did. A number of exchange students at my school; friendly folks in general.

Well, squirrels are not very common in South/West France. Perhaps in the Alps, though I would not say they are everywhere like in North America. I have an Italian friend who is far from stupid and found them absolutely adorable who he kept on seeing them in parks and cities.They look like rats with a long tail to me,though.

was an xchange student to argentina in 93, doing oz proud by being an obnoxious drunken coke sniffing, no-schooling depressive poet living in a small village in the nth west...strange days indeed.

Well, how commonality of squirrels in France was something I wasn't sure about, so that's why I didn't want to just pass judgement on her.

I don't know though, she didn't seem especially bright to begin, so that's probably why I supposed it was more her than a lack of squirrels in France. It wasn't like I was jealous of her living w/my boyfriend, because he drove me crazy and I often secret wished he would be "stolen away" by somebody. Jeff, argh.

We had a refugee for a couple of days. We were 17 year old girl. He was a handsome boy. Hormones raged.

Nicoles Squirell Story needs to be published far and wide

I think I need to go back to high school or at least proof read my posts before hitting that submit button.

Aren't mainland Europeans the only people who still like Depeche Mode?

My exchange student was a German kid named Fabian who I clashed with tremendously until he'd been with the family for about 3 months, after which point we became inseperable. He and his mother even came over for my wedding. He ROCKS.

Does *he* like Depeche Mode?

I know you do :).

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