The Foreign Exchange Student

[in2herbs]

5. In the early 90's we had two exchange students at the same time (not related) from Korea. They were

young, 10 and 11. They went to a special student exchange school during the day but at night and on the weekends their time was with us. Their English consisted mainly of "pizza" "Pepsi" "Phoenix Suns" and "Apache helicopter" because of the video game. I learned it was incredibly rude to feed them left overs. Packed them a lunch every day that included Kim Chee (yuck). The containers were permanently stained because of the Kim Chee. They loved the horses and rural life style. When we needed help communicating we'd go to a Korean restaurant and ask one of the employees to translate for us. I think the one boy was developing a crush on the one girl. When their parents called from Korea it was the middle of the night over here so communicating to them that their children were safe -- just asleep --- was difficult. We obtained special permission from the government for the two boys to sit in an Apache helicopter, something no Korean had done up to that time. One boy sat in the front the other in the back. The boy in the front started playing with his front seat "joy stick" and almost knocked the teeth out of the boy sitting in the back because his joy stick moved in unison to the front seat's joy stick. Stayed in communication for a few years after that but lost contact when we moved and our address changed.