How was/is your experience with foreign exchange students in school?

I've had awesome experiences. Especially with French foreign exchange girl students... They always liked me. ;)
And I have a ton of Koreans at my school, and they are pretty awesome as well.

What about you guys? Tell us of your experiences with foreign exchange students.

I have made friends with a lot of them.

When I was in school they were always kind of quiet though I did talk to a German girl a little bit.

i had this french girl come to my class and i guest i said something wrong to her... she hates me :P

I'm in a ministry called Campus outreach at my college. Me and a few of my friends like to talk to the international students and get to know them. I've learned a lot about Hinduism and Islam in the last semester. There are also many traditions I've learned about in other countries.

Yea, students at my school hating being called exchange students. They prefer international. Meh.

I have seen some foreign people at my university who were from some program but I am not sure if it was a student exchange program. But they were students from another country.

Anyway, one stopped me to talk to me but I had to leave so I had to tell him I was in a hurry. He just gave me a leaflet advertising the program he participated in that brought him to Greece. It is some sort of "go-to-a-foreign-country-for-awesome-experiences" program.

i don't think i've ever had any actual foreign exchange students at any of the schools i went to.

They smelled funny and talked in strange tongues.

In high school every year we had a bunch of foreign exchange students from Germany and Norway. In my Latin class in my senior year we had a foreign exchange student from Italy. I always found it interesting to talk to them, but I was never really close with any of them. The popular crowd tended to befriend them, haha. t3hrubikscube

We rarely get any. This town has a horrible reputation when it comes to racism. There used to be a KKK HQ like right here way back when. All the racists are long gone now... I don't think we've ever had a black student before. We do have a few chinese and korean students and they've been here for years. They're hilarious. :P

The only foreign exchange student I've ever known well was the roommate from Hong Kong I had for fall semester last year. He and his friends (who were also Hong Kong exchange students) seemed pretty interested in the ongoing presidential election. I also found it pretty funny that he didn't listen to me the first night when I warned him that "Chinese" food in America isn't real Chinese food. A few weeks later he came into the room complaining about how he just had Chinese food and that it didn't remotely resemble anything that he ate back in China. The only things I didn't like about the guy was that he was on vent talking to his girlfriend back in HK all the friggin' time (and he seemed incapable of talking softly either), and the fact that he was a very noisy sleeper (snored and even sleep-talked sometimes).

We rarely get any. This town has a horrible reputation when it comes to racism. There used to be a KKK HQ like right here way back when. All the racists are long gone now... I don't think we've ever had a black student before. We do have a few chinese and korean students and they've been here for years. They're hilarious. :P

RobboElRobbo

Last year we had a French kid who got sent back because he got caught with some hard drugs, and this year we have a Polish guy who is pretty much a jerk to everyone...

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We rarely get any. This town has a horrible reputation when it comes to racism. There used to be a KKK HQ like right here way back when. All the racists are long gone now... I don't think we've ever had a black student before. We do have a few chinese and korean students and they've been here for years. They're hilarious. :P

battlefront23

Nope. Alberta actually.

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We rarely get any. This town has a horrible reputation when it comes to racism. There used to be a KKK HQ like right here way back when. All the racists are long gone now... I don't think we've ever had a black student before. We do have a few chinese and korean students and they've been here for years. They're hilarious. :P

RobboElRobbo

Nope. Alberta actually.

I'm living with one. I'm sure it would be cool if he was around more...

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battlefront23

Nope. Alberta actually.

Of all places they stationed themselves in a village with like 200 people (there's like 600 now, big improvement, I know).

The Chinies are awesome and I made a French girl laugh with my awful French speaking skills! :o She did the kiss on the cheek thing to me aswell!

But most of them iv'e met didn't like America much and were disapointed when they got here.

This one German guy was like...."This is the great America?" And then like left after a week.

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battlefront23

Nope. Alberta actually.

theres a TON of asians in my school. Theres a few of them that are really perverted... imaps3fanboy

lol thats funny, the guys or the girls?

I have no experience on those people.

Pretty cool. My school had a student from Iraq and some of us took her to her first football game. She was so confused :P

Some of my closest friends were exchange students.

There was a kid from New Zealend in my US Histroy class. He was cool. :P