Anyone done this? We just submitted our "application" to host a German boy for the 2018-19 school year. The schools starting early in Savannah, GA. this means he'd get here in July. We're figuring on getting a 10th grader, the same age as our oldest boy. We also have twin boys 2 grades younger.
I'm driving this show. Mrs RG, who rules the house except for meals, has acquiesced. The impetus for this is my desire that our boys have more contact with foreigners to help combat the "America is the center of the universe" idea that all us Walmart shoppers have. Imo a foreign country, a foreign culture, isn't "real" until you've been there.
I picked Germany because 3 of my 4 grandparents were German, and I lived there for 4yrs in the early 90's. If it goes well, Mrs RG can pick the next country of origin. She'll prob pick Spain.
Has to be a boy tho. I wouldn't want to inflict our 3 knuckleheads upon some innocent lass. That would be just cruel.
Last year I spent a couple months teaching the boys German via audio lessons. 20yrs ago my German was "useful", but certainly not fluent. I'll restart that effort this Spring. The kid will speak English tho. Probably better than our kids.
Our local HS, arguably the best public HS in GA(*), is hot for exchange students so getting the kid into the school will be easy.
(*) I think that GA is usually 48-50th in the nation for HS test scores, depending on how SC and MO do one year to the next. So, school is best of the worst.
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I'm driving this show. Mrs RG, who rules the house except for meals, has acquiesced. The impetus for this is my desire that our boys have more contact with foreigners to help combat the "America is the center of the universe" idea that all us Walmart shoppers have. Imo a foreign country, a foreign culture, isn't "real" until you've been there.
I picked Germany because 3 of my 4 grandparents were German, and I lived there for 4yrs in the early 90's. If it goes well, Mrs RG can pick the next country of origin. She'll prob pick Spain.
Has to be a boy tho. I wouldn't want to inflict our 3 knuckleheads upon some innocent lass. That would be just cruel.
Last year I spent a couple months teaching the boys German via audio lessons. 20yrs ago my German was "useful", but certainly not fluent. I'll restart that effort this Spring. The kid will speak English tho. Probably better than our kids.
Our local HS, arguably the best public HS in GA(*), is hot for exchange students so getting the kid into the school will be easy.
(*) I think that GA is usually 48-50th in the nation for HS test scores, depending on how SC and MO do one year to the next. So, school is best of the worst.
Books @ Amazon
"If only he had used his genius for niceness, instead of Evil." M. Smart