Open Question: I need lots of help, I fail at flirting and I have no idea where to start?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 06:53 pm by

Alright, so I started my first day of grade 11 today. Its the grade that exchange students come to the school but I dont have any classes with any of them. During the assembly this morning, my friend pointed out one from Europe (she has a class with him). He is absolutely gorgeous. I dont necessarily have a crush on him but I would definitely like to get to know him better. Apparently he doesnt speak much english. I dont have any classes with him and i dont know where his locker is. My friend says that she wouldn’t invite him to come eat with us. I think its cuz she likes him. I would just like a way to talk to him. Any ideas would be awesome thanx :)

Resolved Question: For my next foreign exchange, which of these countries would be the best for me? Read inside?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 04:23 pm by

Moin!
I’m currently a foreign exchange student (through Rotary) from Rochester, New York, but living in Cadenberge, Germany for the next year. When I get back home, after I finish high school, I will JUST be young enough to be able to do another foreign exchange - I am EXTREMELY lucky.
Right now, in Germany, I am having a great time - it really is a great culture and different, don’t get me wrong, but my problem is, it is in too many ways just like the USA. It’s actually so much the same, that I don’t even consider it a foreign exchange, I just feel like I moved to a different part of the USA, that speaks a different language.
So, for my next exchange, I decided I definitely wanted to go to South America - But I want to make sure I get a HUGE culture shock when I get there. Which South American country, of these countries, would be the best place to go to learn about a completely different culture than USA/Western Europe’s?
- Ecuador
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Venezuela
- Columbia (not sure if this is still on the list of available countries, so if you choose this, please also pick another country too!)

If you could, please also give details and try to persuade me to go to that country instead of the other ones. I really want a cultural experience when I go - thanks everyone!

Liebe grüße,
Mat (from Germany!)

Open Question: For my next foreign exchange, which of these countries would be the best for me? Read inside?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 04:23 pm by

Moin!
I’m currently a foreign exchange student (through Rotary) from Rochester, New York, but living in Cadenberge, Germany for the next year. When I get back home, after I finish high school, I will JUST be young enough to be able to do another foreign exchange - I am EXTREMELY lucky.
Right now, in Germany, I am having a great time - it really is a great culture and different, don’t get me wrong, but my problem is, it is in too many ways just like the USA. It’s actually so much the same, that I don’t even consider it a foreign exchange, I just feel like I moved to a different part of the USA, that speaks a different language.
So, for my next exchange, I decided I definitely wanted to go to South America - But I want to make sure I get a HUGE culture shock when I get there. Which South American country, of these countries, would be the best place to go to learn about a completely different culture than USA/Western Europe’s?
- Ecuador
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Venezuela
- Columbia (not sure if this is still on the list of available countries, so if you choose this, please also pick another country too!)

If you could, please also give details and try to persuade me to go to that country instead of the other ones. I really want a cultural experience when I go - thanks everyone!

Liebe grüße,
Mat (from Germany!)

Resolved Question: What kind of music do they listen to in Brazil?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 01:09 pm by

I have a foreign exchange student living with me, and he is from Brazil. To make him feel more at home, I was going to get some Brazilian CDs , but I don’t know what type of music they listen to. I don’t want to get some old people music, I want to get some stuff that he probably listened to back home. It would very nice if you included a couple band names. Thank you!

Open Question: What kind of music do they listen to in Brazil?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 01:09 pm by

I have a foreign exchange student living with me, and he is from Brazil. To make him feel more at home, I was going to get some Brazilian CDs , but I don’t know what type of music they listen to. I don’t want to get some old people music, I want to get some stuff that he probably listened to back home. It would very nice if you included a couple band names. Thank you!

Open Question: Foreign Exchange Students Romance?! (Probably the longest one in yahoo history! Sorry!)?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 12:54 pm by

ne if she always put her bf at 1st place. i wonder how she felt about me?
i never had a girlfriend before so i don’t really know how girl thinking..

tks
i’m sorry my english isn’t very good and it’s really long for question that you could divide it to days to read!
I really appreciate if you’d either answer or read this
for those who’d like to just look question i’ll write it at the bottom under the line
for who’d willing to know the story about it and help, here it is, tks

we were both foreign exchange students from different countries. we had last period together. i started school later.

first day i was so excited and happy, but few days later i couldn’t make friend at all, i looked upset then and this girl showed up. she came to me asked me a lot of question all the time about what happened to me, if i miss home and how do i feel, or even my family, or chat. well i didn’t really want to fall for this girl because i thought she might be like others, showed interest to me then just ignore me next day.

so i decided not to pay attention to her (maybe ignore her too..), but still, she called my name all the time when i try to walk fast toward home after bell ring and pretended i didn’t hear her.
but few weeks later i switched class and start to have friends, suddenly i felt so bad and sorry to her..

even that, whenever she saw me, she always had her big smile on her face.. and i didn’t exclude her anymore, but you know the bastard thing i did, so i didn’t should approach her. i saw her at campus sometimes and started missing her and realize i actually like her when the first time i saw her
tho we met several times and talked, she seems doesn’t dislike me. several times she called me to sit with her when i see her in the morning, she won’t sit away when i sit next to her and always willing to chat with me. but i was attracted by her deeply then, we seldom met, so i really cherish and remember every time we met

well i didn’t think she “likes” me for some reason, but
there are several times seems odd to me, at lunch time when i see her, she always had a big smile. once, i sit with my friends and didn’t know she just in the line in front of my sight, when i saw her, she was obviously looking at me here but turn her head to another side right away.
and once we had met and chat on Friday, and then on the end of school day we met again, we walk together to school bus. and chatting happily.. her school bus was far than mine, when i said goodbye to her and was going to get on the school bus, that weekend had 3 days off.. so i looked at her last time, walking to her bus, and that moment, she turned around and look at me too..:)

i still don’t know what that mean, because the odd thing is that we were sitting together, some friends came and i introduce to her then start chat, but she told them she has a boyfriend back home then

then i felt like perhaps she just treat all people the same way, because she’s a really nice girl

but she after that, she still ask me to eat lunch together, and stay at library after school with another friend together, she said because we seldom meet.(well, she said “with a friend” to both..0.0)
well, we didn’t actually do these things eventually

then the most weird, saddest and happiest happened at the same time!
the begging of December, i got to know i had to transfer to another school soon. those days, i tried to get more time with her by telling school i want to switch morning reading time to her class.. and it worked!. the first day she was so surprised i came and more surprised that teacher wanted me sit next to her:) she even said bye to me when i leave. although we couldn’t talk, but i felt so peaceful just to be with her..

i was totally fall in love with her.. my last day of school, morning, i couldn’t find her at cafeteria as usually, i walked all campus just to see if she came to school, i found she was sitting next to her morning reading time class, i sat down, with a distance, and told her i’m going to transfer the school.
she listened it and changed her soft voice to sadness “no, why are you going to change school? you don’t like this school? please, don’t leave me here. don’t leave me alone..”
it looks like Hollywood movies plot, but these are truely the things she exactly said to me..
i was very shocked, i didn’t expect she would care about me like this
i tried to find a word to make her feel better, and laid my head to the wall, but i don’t know. because the truth is obviously i had to leave her
i couldn’t connect and talk to her from then on…

i’m sorry it’s really long, but actually i got her email and she replied me 3 months later!!
it could be another question and story..
just this one is way too long
but now she seems doesn’t want to talk to me anymore…
————————————–…

um why does she so nice at first to me and act some could misunderstand or confused to me while i know she has a boyfriend back her home country?
is it because she treat every people nicely as her personality?
I do love her and care about her, so it’s fi

Open Question: For my next foreign exchange, which of these countries would be the best?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 11:50 am by

Moin!
I’m currently a foreign exchange student (through Rotary) from Rochester, New York, but living in Cadenberge, Germany for the next year. When I get back home, after I finish high school, I will JUST be young enough to be able to do another foreign exchange - I am EXTREMELY lucky.
Right now, in Germany, I am having a great time - it really is a great culture and different, don’t get me wrong, but my problem is, it is in too many ways just like the USA. It’s actually so much the same, that I don’t even consider it a foreign exchange, I just feel like I moved to a different part of the USA, that speaks a different language.
So, for my next exchange, I decided I definitely wanted to go to South America - But I want to make sure I get a HUGE culture shock when I get there. Which South American country, of these countries, would be the best place to go to learn about a completely different culture than USA/Western Europe’s?
- Ecuador
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Venezuela
- Columbia (not sure if this is still on the list of available countries, so if you choose this, please also pick another country too!)

If you could, please also give details and try to persuade me to go to that country instead of the other ones. I really want a cultural experience when I go - thanks everyone!

Liebe grüße,
Mat (from Germany!)

Open Question: Looking for a present!?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 10:55 am by

Hello I am an exchange student and i need to find a present for my 17 years old guest sister…
anyone got an idea?

Open Question: MY 42 draft resume how is it?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 04:54 am by

EDUCATION
2004 – 2008Baruch Campus College High School - 91GPA, all honors classes / AP Calculus, AP Art, AP Biology

WORK EXPERIENCE
July ‘06– Present Visiting Nurse Services of New York (6-9 hr/wk)
·Draft speeches and bios for winners of Company’s ESPRIT award, organize and design drafts of award posters, update company’s Employee Awards Website and organize employee relations documentation
Feb.’07– Aug.’07ELab: Internship at Columbia University: Teacher’s College

RELEVANT COURSEWORK / PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Spring ‘07CUNY College Now, Personal Finance Course (6hr/wk),
·College credit course on credits, how to build money and plan for short/long term financial goals through investing, savings and budgeting - Achieved highest level of coursework
Summer ‘07Yale Summer Exploration (Yale University)
·Took classes and lived on Yale campus
Summer ‘07Career Opportunities for the Accounting Profession (COAP), Pace University campus
·Full time residential course developing my understanding of the accounting profession
Fall ‘06-’07American Museum of Natural History
·5 week course on Paleontology, 5 week course on Marine Biology
Fall ‘06-’08Mentee, Minds Matter of NYC
·Participate in highly selective mentoring program focused on achieving academic excellence and gaining acceptance to top-tier summer academic programs and four-year universities
·Develop writing and critical thinking skills and complete standardized test preparation during weekly sessions
‘06 – ‘08Denmark Exchange Program
·Share experiences and knowledge of New York with our assigned Danish partners, traveled to Denmark
·Learn about what roles Europe played in both World Wars and America’s impact on postwar Europe
‘05 – ‘07Asian American Studies Association
·Collaborated with public school teachers, administrators, and counselors in New York and New Jersey K-12 schools (both public and private) to explore issues that impact our increasingly large Asian American student population

VOLUNTEER/COMMUNITY SERVICE
‘06– Present Citizen’s Committee for Children: Youth Action (Fact Based Advocacy)
·We research poor, low income communities by visiting them and conducting interviews practitioner’s files
·Present speeches requesting community improvement in City Hall
‘05– ‘07 Artist, Faith Ringgold Peace Quilt
·Created Peace and Dream posters, shared and presented quilt and peace project to different schools
‘07– ‘08Senior Mentor (For Freshman students)
·Provide guidance to bring a smooth transition for the freshman to the new high school environment
·Work on community outreach by doing community service with mentees
‘06, ‘07Assistant, NYC Marathon

EXTRACURRICULARS & HONORS ACTIVITIES
‘07– ‘08Graduation Committee, Asian American Club Vice President, American Red Cross Club Member, Chinese American Planning Council (CPC) Volunteer
‘05– ‘08Section Editor / Staff Reporter, School Newspaper
·Manage writers for both entertainment and Baruch/World News assigning and editing articles. Responsible for creating story ideas, helping with section photographs and enforcing deadlines
·Find story ideas specifically relating to in/out of school entertainment/school/world news issues, write articles
‘05– ‘08President, Charity Club
·Managed group of 23 people to raise money for The St. Judes Research Hospital and residents of Darfur through organized charity events
‘06– ‘07 National Honors Society
·Organize events (parties, dances, food sales, etc.) to fundraise for various charities and organizations
‘04, ‘06, ‘08 Actress, School Play: Much Ado but Nothing, Our Town

ADDITIONAL SKILLS - Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin & Fujianese), proficient in Spanish, general understanding of Graphic Design, good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Open Question: Could I get into a decent college?

Aug 31, 2009 @ 02:32 am by

I am a sophomore in high school about to enter my junior year.
Academics: I maintain a gpa of 3.8/ I am entering AP American History next year and honors english. In my senior yea I will add to that AP biology and FF french (gets honors credit)/ In ninth grade I received an English achievement award and a mixed chorus achievement award, and this past year I got student of the week in global studies, a global studies achievment award, and a mixed chorus achievement award/ This year I was selected as a student in Who’s Who Among high school students/ Consistent High Honor student at my high school (average above 92.000)/ member of junior honor society, joining national honor society next year/ took the PSAT and scored a 1300/1600/ Currently I am ranked number 20 out of 150 in my grade, but will most likely change since I am doing AP courses the next two years/ selected to attend an law institute in washington dc, although i couldnt attend due to financial circumstances/ my sister is a professional editor, who help me intensely with my essay that I will submit for college

Extra curriculars: I am currently concert master of my school’s concert band, and was selected to study in Europe this summer with the nation’s finest bands/ I have attended a prestigious camp at Ithaca college for the past three years, principal clarinetist there for two of the years while I was there/ All county and area all state bands for the past 3 years, ranking very high in the seating consistently/ I have taken private lessons in clarinet since I was a freshman in high school/ I am currently a member of my town’s youth symphony, as assistant principal clarinetist, planning on competing in the concerto competition this coming year/ in NYSSMA, i have gotten a 26/28, 24/28,27/28,99/100, and 98/100 for clarinet, and a 97/100, and a 99/100 on my voice solos, as a tenor/ I am a member of drama club, and have had one lead and two supporting roles the past years/ I am traveling to France next April as a part of my school’s French Exchange program/ active member of french club/ a member of chorus and jazz choir, singing solos in different languages in the ensembles/ recently selected as an alternate for NYSSMA all state chorus, a very prestigious group/ A member of environmental club, key club and president of the pride club, and SADD./ Odyssey of the Mind for 5 years, placing 1st at regional tournament each time, and a 2nd place at states and two 3rd places at states/ participating in a theatre work shops at a university next summer and an institute in which i will study with the philadelphia orchestra/ cross country/ Selected for NYSBDA band, a very prestigious conference to improve musicianship/ I will start taking vocal lessons from the best vocalist in my area/ I made it to the semi finals for the invention convention/ mentoring for 1 year (10th grade)/ recieved a very rare scholarship from my city’s music program called the logan thomas scholarship, awarded to only the 2 most gifted musicians in the area/ various awards in french, for high grades/ I am in my church’s choir/ I play with my church’s band on clarinet every now and then/ applying to a job, since i just turned 16/ I have ushered for my town’s forum for off broadway shows/ I currently have about 25 hours community service(plan to get more my last two years of high school)/ treasurer of my eighth grade advanced instrumental music class/ I do stage crew for many community performances and middle school shows/ I have played piano for 5 years and i plan on starting again soon/

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