Student exchange program

yeah it's uh like we were gearing up to record last week and then um uh we had so we're hosting an exchange student and for you to have an exchange student at your house for more than two days like they can go to sleepovers and stuff like that you have to have a background check, you have to go through a whole ordeal.

And one of the other exchange students in the high school that my daughter and exchange student go to, their host family had a funeral.

And so they needed somewhere for this girl to go to from Wednesday to Sunday.

That's more than two days.

She's from, from Brazil.

Uh, we enjoy hosting for, uh, exchange students, and actually, Fernanda's the eighth one that we've hosted.

But she's, I think, one of four exchange students that we have at the high school-

Okay

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And, you know, uh, uh, you know, she's talking about the, you know, learning the culture really of what goes on in, in schools here in America.

But one thing for our students, and also for us particularly as host families, is to get to learn the culture of, of different co- of different countries.

Uh, you know, whether it's their foods, you know, Fernanda's cooked for us a couple of times and so all of our exchange students have done that.

What do you even know? Try living my life for one day.

Well, if it's that suffocating, why not fly somewhere else? The International Exchange Program, halfway across the world, should be far enough off the radar, right?

like they'd ever agree wait what if i just ran away by the time they realized i'd be halfway across the globe i'll show them what teenage rebellion actually looks like to finish my study abroad app i needed extracurricular points and just like that

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So he doubled down and now says he wants 100,000.

And as someone who went on exchange programs, studied in China, lived in China, I am generally a big supporter of people going to China.

Cultural exchange, sure.

Sure.

Again, but my point is that for anyone who's going...

Any of the programs that sort of...

Exchange programs, educational programs, they have to have insurance.

And the State Department had previously had the...

And rather than give you a sort of theoretical analysis of the topic, I thought I would draw on some episodes of my own life to try to illuminate ways in which I think America has changed and also ways in which someone like me, born in a different country, can come to America and, of course, become American.

What does that involve? So I came as an exchange student at the age of 17 and And I lived with four families in Arizona, went to public school, the 12th grade.

And shortly after I got here, my host parents said to me, Dinesh, there's a homecoming dance at your high school.

You should really ask someone to go.

And you could get rid of one of these activities, the one that traumatized you the most when you were a kid.

Which one would it be? You've got Athletics Day, Camp Polyfest, School Exchange Program.

For me, it's actually a tie between Athletics Day and Polyfest.

What? That's why I did

camp.

Someone said, morning, team.

My parents sent me on a school exchange program to the islands for a whole year.

They lied to me.