Overseas Learning Experience
Talk about learning how the other half lives. Our education special continues with this vital foreign exchange lesson: Leave before you starve. Maine exchange student claims his Coptic hosts in Egypt were tight with a crumb.
Topics: America, Egypt, education
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:42 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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February 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am
The last paragraph states that the young man is not soured on foreign travel by this experience; he plans to go to Zimbabwe next year to build homes and trails.
Has anyone seen my 2 X 4?
February 28th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Yeah, salty, smack him along side the head for me, would you?
Jeez, that kid is stupidly stubborn.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
“The truth is, the boy we hosted for nearly six months was eating for an hour and a half at every meal. The amount of food he ate at each meal was equal to six people,” Hanna said.
Judging from the kid’s picture, that can’t be true. But I wonder why a kid would stay that long if he was being mistreated like that, exchange program or not.