Foreign Exchanges and the likes
 

SO. Im going on the french exchange, and I dont know why. It was a total spur of the moment thing, literally, I just one day thought "yeah, why not" and when I got home, my parents were so mad. Oh well. Too late now. So anyway, anyone who's been on one before, care to fill me in on the do's and dont's ? Im SO scared. Its not even funny. Im probably gonna get some lad who's slightly homocidal, and hates me because I cant pronounce his name properly, and he'll murder me in my sleep or something.

Well. Help me :(

Seeing you`re going to France just be arrogant , unreasonable , arguementative & rude.

You`ll fit right in

Ahah, I like how you're practically being every one of those things yourself right now. Nice. . .

Well I do live close ,maybe it`s rubbing off

Let that be a warning to you , stay away

Spppf. Feckin "national pride" my ass. People are just up themselves :)

Anyway. So, hes coming here in a week and a day. And Ive only just learnt his name, not spoken to him once, and Im actually ****ting myself over here, Im that scared. My friend once did the german exchange, and her partners' gran died while she was over there, that must have been awful :( Hmm. Family intrusion . . .

Ah just by them some croissants.

They'll be well pleased.

I know a wee bit of French if that helps any....

Does he speak American?

EDIT: English.

Why are you scared? He's the poor lad who's being torn away from the arms of his loving family and thrust into deepest darkest Cornwall. Be nice to him and he'll be nice back. Don't let your family get out the fine dining set and insist on extremely mannered behaviour because that'll just freak the guy out.

I'm tempted to say at the moment that a lot of British people don't like the French because they have an attitude towards their own language which is very similar to the British attitude to english (i.e. I will go to other countries and shout at people in my native tongue and get grumpy when they don't understand).

HA..and wine.

all i can say, is dont act like youre trying to keep your distance. theyll see that and hate you for it.

The fact that you're worried is a good thing. Fear is good, it means you're willing to step outside of your comfort zones and live a little. If you're never scared in your life you're doing something very wrong. Just sit back and enjoy it, you may be miserably homesick when you first get there, but I bet you anything by the time you're about to leave anf go back home, you won't want to.