Student Exchange Programs

Basically, I sit with my two greatest friends, a foreign exchange student who doesn’t know English and these other two semi-friends. Let’s call the semi friends Aly and Kate. So I used to be really good friends with Aly but recently I’ve come to notice something about her. She’s an attention who**- everything has to be about her! And I don’t really care but sheesh, she gets out of hand sometimes. And another thing I noticed is she is a poser. She dresses ’scene’ but tells everyone she’s ‘emo’ and ‘depressed’ and ‘cuts’ and ‘wants to die’. I absolutely hate it since I know someone who was suicidal and she isn’t and it just ticks me off she makes fun of people like that.
So I don’t really want to be close to her anymore. So I started to trim down talking to her. She noticed and she said really mean things like “gawd, you are just as mean as ___ [my good friend]”
And the final part of this question- she super skinny. But she thinks she is fat so she is now ‘on a diet’. It is really annoying because she skips meals and complains and is always jogging in place and says she fat. I HATE that [I used to be crazy about my weight but thankfully learned the harm in all that crap]. What makes me angry is that she’s so negative and that negativity makes me feel negative abut my body. I don’t want to go back into that I’m fat phase! What makes me angrier is that she dragged Kate in. Kate used to be fine but now she thinks she’s fat because Aly tells her that she is! Now they both hardly eat and on the days they do it’s half a salad and water.
1) Should I move tables? I’m tired of sitting next to her at lunch hearing about blah blah blah, there is an empty table in the same section- should I just move?
2) What should I do? Am I right to be annoyed with her?

Basically, I sit with my two greatest friends, a foreign exchange student who doesn’t know English and these other two semi-friends. Let’s call the semi friends Aly and Kate. So I used to be really good friends with Aly but recently I’ve come to notice something about her. She’s an attention who**- everything has to be about her! And I don’t really care but sheesh, she gets out of hand sometimes. And another thing I noticed is she is a poser. She dresses ’scene’ but tells everyone she’s ‘emo’ and ‘depressed’ and ‘cuts’ and ‘wants to die’. I absolutely hate it since I know someone who was suicidal and she isn’t and it just ticks me off she makes fun of people like that.
So I don’t really want to be close to her anymore. So I started to trim down talking to her. She noticed and she said really mean things like “gawd, you are just as mean as ___ [my good friend]”
And the final part of this question- she super skinny. But she thinks she is fat so she is now ‘on a diet’. It is really annoying because she skips meals and complains and is always jogging in place and says she fat. I HATE that [I used to be crazy about my weight but thankfully learned the harm in all that crap]. What makes me angry is that she’s so negative and that negativity makes me feel negative abut my body. I don’t want to go back into that I’m fat phase! What makes me angrier is that she dragged Kate in. Kate used to be fine but now she thinks she’s fat because Aly tells her that she is! Now they both hardly eat and on the days they do it’s half a salad and water.
1) Should I move tables? I’m tired of sitting next to her at lunch hearing about blah blah blah, there is an empty table in the same section- should I just move?
2) What should I do? Am I right to be annoyed with her?

For a while i have wanted to go be an exchange student in australia. I would go next year first semester of my sophmore year in high schoool? Do you think i am to young? Also do you think when i get back my friends will still be friends with me? and any tips if i do go?

Happened to all foreign exchange students in my school, including myself.

I want to become a foreign exchange student, but it is a lot of money, how can I raise the money so I can do this great opportunity?

I want to become a foreign exchange student, but it is a lot of money, how can I raise the money so I can do this great opportunity?

Sorry this is gonna be long. Please be patient.

This exchange student kept asking me to lose virginity with him and I finally gave in. But right after I left his dorm room, while we were waiting for the elevator together, he told me out of nowhere that he hates PDA and told me not to do anything PDA with him in front of people but in fact I didn’t do anything PDA before and never plan on doing so because I know guys hate that, and the interesting thing is that he is actually the one who used to kiss me once in the railway. And now he won’t even talk to me in any way. Why does he have to do that to me?

Some girls can be friends with him but I was the one he wants to have sex with from the beginning of our acquaintance and it turns out there is no longer any friendship after the sex despite I distinctly rememeber him telling me that he won’t just “shag and leave”. Am I not even friend material? I always know my position and treated him as a friend who is also an unattainable love for me and now he had sex with me. But I feel like I am automatically stripped of the opportunity to be around him like other girls do? What have I ever done to him to deserve that?

And he once told me via MSN that he knows I am that kind of girl that must fall in love once i slept with him. So if he really thought he knows everything, why would he still ask for sex when in fact i told him many times that i would rather stay virgin and losing virginity is not as simple as he might have thought.

The reason I eventually agreed to drop my pants is because I couldn’t imagine that he could be cold-hearted. Though he always told me that he just wanted sex and only like me as a friend. But he did tell me he will stay friends with me after the sex but it turns out he is ignoring me. Now i know that he is lying when he tells me I am beautiful and he is attracted to me. Is he cold-hearted or am I asking for something I shouldn’t be asking for?

What hurts my feeling even more is that when I notice that my new girl friend’s girl friend is actually friends with him back in his country, she told my girl friend that he is a VERY NICE PERSON, VERY NICE FRIEND and that he never hit on her…why can’t i have the same if he really finds me beautiful and attractive (though i know its very unlikely that he meant it when he gave this compliment)? Not even just a friend? I honestly felt like crap now.

Sorry this is gonna be long. Please be patient.

I lost my virginity to this exchange student at school 2 weeks ago. He is about to turn 21 and said he has slept with around 30 women so far. (I knew that after sleeping with him, because I asked him afterwards)

JUST AFTER SLEEPING WITH ME, out of nowhere, he told me that he hates PDA and asked me not to jump up and kiss him suddenly in front of people, but in fact he is the one initiating kissing me in the railway before. I already assumed all along that guys do not like PDA so i never displayed affection towards him in public, but only to hold his hands, therefore i was quite offended by his “statement”. Then this guy said “i’m just telling ya”

And several hours after leaving his dorm room, I happened to saw him on MSN and so I said Hi, but he said he was busy working on a project so he said he couldn’t chat and signed off immediately.

Of course I was crushed, but he did tell me he was going to work with his groupmate while we were still in his room, so I believed him.

Before the sex ended, he also told me that he would go sightseeing with his friend the next day so he would not be able to hang out with me again. But as from what I saw I cold see him being online all day the next day. (I appeared offline that time.)

I thought he would at least be courteous enough to say hi to me again on MSN after that rather abrupt signoff, but he never did. But he was always online while I was online…

I finally couldn’t stand that and asked him if he was really not going to talk to me again. (Becasue before I agreed to sleep with him he said he would never stop talking with me afterwards). And he was the one who always said Hi on MSN, so I suspected even more that he was not saying hi unless he wants sex again. (which really seems so) I asked him if this is really the case but he said no, saying that I was accusing him.

He said he didn’t say hi because he couldn’t see me, but then I said we are always online during the same time, then he said “we didn’t talk that much before anyway, WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?” And this made me cry inside, literally.

I know nothing serious can happen between us but I always want an intimate friendship with him. But he said it’s imposssible that i would be just looking for a friendship because it’s “all or nothing” for me, which means I am that kind of girl who either has to fall in love with him or not seeing him at all. But I said he is actually the one who acts as if he wants “all or nothing”. Because I always thought we were just hanging out as friends but he always initiated making out and having sex.

I tried so hard to treat him just as a friend and I did, but he is always the one who crosses the line and said afterwards that “I know you can’t just stay friend after the sex”. Because he knows I like him. I just want to say “Come on What does he want from me?” I slept with him and now just want to keep him as friend (as he askes me to), and it seems I am the one coming off as the desperate one.

He also said that he is a STD-free non-player when I asked him if he is a player or has any STDs.

There were actually many more chaos happening. But I will just spare you those details considering the length.

But I still miss him so much (as friend/not as friend). And one of my girl friends was actually his friend’s friend and she told me that they are going to do ice-skating next week as a big bunch with some other friends as well and she said I should go if I still want to be friends with him. But I think it would be so embarassing for me…He definitely doesn’t want to have contacts with me anymore right? I used to have pity laughs or pity giggles when I told my friends this incident, but it turns out the more I share, the more I don’t feel that my pain is relieved, instead, I feel even sadder… Am I asking for too much??

Just want to have more time to see him before he leaves…I always think that sad feelings will be gone once he leaves, but I started to think that it will be the opposite.

But my girl friend’s girl friend is friend with him back in his country and said that he is a VERY NICE GUY , VERY NICE FRIEND but she also said he never hit on her like that.

So, I was looking for friendship with him all along because I already knew that a relationship is impossible but he made me look like I am not even worth to be his friend but just a sex toy to him. Why can’t he just not target me for sex and be friends with me like he did with my girl friend’s friend???

He did say that i am beautiful and he is attracted to me and my body but I think these are all crappy lies to lure me to bed.
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And you can have a guess how old I am. I just want to see if I act my age.
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I do admit that my thought of wishing to be his friend is just a resort. Of course I like him more than just a friend but I know he is als

Hm, I was wondering, can California students go to Alaska as a Foreign Exchange student?
I have a family in Alaska who would love to host me, when im 15 of course.
But, would the program allow it?
Im really curious to see if I can go, the scenery’s there are wonderful, and I’d love to see it.
I believe you have to have decent grades to be able to go also, and as of now I have A’s and some B’s.
And my parents will allow me to go.

Hm, I was wondering, can California students go to Alaska as a Foreign Exchange student?
I have a family in Alaska who would love to host me, when im 15 of course.
But, would the program allow it?
Im really curious to see if I can go, the scenery’s there are wonderful, and I’d love to see it.
I believe you have to have decent grades to be able to go also, and as of now I have A’s and some B’s.
And my parents will allow me to go.