Excellent story telling! Wow! Thanks for the fun read. And your photos are spectacular! Holy smokes!
The student exchange programs sound awesome. We had a student from Japan when I was real young, but that was it. I don't think my parents had a bad experience, just that my brother and I were more than enough for them.
In Jr. college, I used to buy shrooms off a Japanese exchange student. He got placed in a home where his exchange-brother (what's the term?) was a big time rave promoter in Southern California, at the time. They let him use a badass old-school muscle car that had a nitrous tank in the trunk. We'd hit nitrous in the parking lot during break time. He was on the guest list of just about every rave in the area. I wonder what happened to that kid, it seemed like he hit the jackpot with the foreign exchange student situation.
That was my photography class. Loved that class :)
Oh that's so cool!! It's so fun to have such a close look into a different culture!!! But as the exchange student, what awesome luck to get in with such a cool host brother and host family in general!!!
Thanks for reading, follow along for more as we're not even HALFWAY though the stories of our travels!!! South America, India, Sri Lanka and all of Central America to come!!!!