Mstrs, Yungatart and hXc adopt a son/brother!

[yungatart]

Well, we must be slightly mad :yes:
As if the 6 kids/6 grandkids we already have are not enough, next Saturday we welcome a new son and brother to our family.
Henry is nearly 18, an exchange student who comes from Finland and will be part of our family for the next year.
He arrives on Sat 3 March - gets Mstrs out of a 30 th birthday party in NP so he can go to Manfield.....
hXc is hoping to go to Finalnd next year so Henry will be able to help him learn some Finnish. Luckily his English is excellent - our Finnish is non existent!!
We have never done anything like this before, so it will be an experience for all of us,hopefully a good one.
When you see us around, please come up and say "Hello" to him, and us too, of course!

[Colapop]

An 18 y/o... Hmmm... here for a good time not a long time?

[Meekey_Mouse]

That's awesome... good on you guys :rockon:

[hXc]

Him teaching me Finnish won't just be good for when I go there.
There is a rather pretty Finnish girl here already (they know eachother too!) and it would be pretty cool to impress her in her own language. Considering that Finn's are always impressed when people from other countries speak their language anyway, 'cause they know how hard it is!

[paturoa]

how many 6 + 6 ???

Not much else to do down your way? - lol

[klingon]

Cool! What a great experience! I've never actually hosted an exchange student but I used to work on a dairy farm and we used to get farm exchanges from places like Denmark and Ireland and stuff.

It's a real adventure learning all about other people and their languages and lifestyles.

What an excellent adventure for you all! :sunny:

[Trudes]

Good on you guys!:niceone:
(so many Fin(n)ish jokes, so little time and they're quite lame!*giggle*)

[MSTRS]

Good on you guys!:niceone:
(so many Fin(n)ish jokes, so little time and they're quite lame!*giggle*)

What...you reckon we should have some of that sauce in the cupboard?

[riffer]

Well done guys - sounds like win/win to me.

Does this mean that Zac is guaranteed a placement for overseas exchange by doing this, or is it an essential requirement of the overseas exchange system.

Sounds like a cool idea. Can you do overseas exchange with 7 year olds? Tim has developed an uppity streak of late...

[McJim]

Bugger! We'll need to put up a tent or convert the garage the next time you fellas decide to come up to Auckland.

[Donor]

Just get him to teach you:

Tokko I-KIRJAIN mainittu te had ihana aine , te karkea tupakka we häikäistä , ja niin muodoin puolalainen minun mopedi ajaksi we?

OR:

If I said you had a beautiful body, would you shag me blind, and then polish my motorbike for me?

:D

[Crisis management]

You'll have a great time! We have had a wide variety of foreign students and have learnt something from each of them....some things I didn't really want to know mind you, like the Hungarian guy having an affair with his language tutor :dodge:

Get really involved with them and the experience will give you the most back.

Have a great time! :rockon:

[kiwifruit]

wow, thats awesome

what a fantastic opportunity for you hXc

[The Stranger]

An 18 y/o... Hmmm... here for a good time not a long time?

Just perfect for you aye pop.
Good luck.

[Scouse]

I hope him and his family are aware of the movie Deliverence

[yungatart]

I hope him and his family are aware of the movie Deliverence

Of course! We posted them our own home made version!:Pokey:
Henry plays the banjo - he should fit right in...
Anyway when are you coming down to stay - you're always saying you are on your way and would love to meet us - yet you find some pathetic excuse at the last minute - as in, "my budgie died' or, "my haemarrhoids are playing up", and the latest, "It's that time of the month and I wouldn't want to make a mess"....

[cowboyz]

so disappointed in you HXC. I told you. Swedish. Blonde. Female!!

Best of luck with the venture. I doubt there is another family in NZ who could make an exchange student feel more comfortable and fit in.

[Panther]

Do they allow emos into finland?

[hXc]

Do they allow emos into finland?Yeah, their fringes keep their faces warm.

Emo...another label that people think they know everything about. I know it's part of human nature, but why do people stereotype and label people. Pathetic little beings we are.

[Panther]

if you not keen on stereotypes then dont follow trends and maybe society wont judge you....see that emo chick in aus that got sliced up cos she was emo?

[JMemonic]

Good luck with this, over the years my family has hosted students from all over the world, it a great experience. We were an emergency host family so if students were having issues with their host families or as happened from time to time the host family they were supposed to stay with pulled out at the last moment they had somewhere to stay until things could get sorted. Unfortunately we had to recommend a couple of students got sent back home but that number was so small.

My sister went overseas on an exchange program and ended up getting married to a cousin of her host family.

[Mom]

Well, we must be slightly mad :yes:

No no! totally mad!!

Congratulations to you all, my daughter did an exchange to Japan a few years ago, we have had the wonderful experience of the Japanese student living with us in return, great fun! frustrating!, fun! irritating!, FUN! did I mention fun?????

Make the most of every moment you can with this lad? (is it a lad?) Great experience for him, if Zak gets there next year the most amazing experience for him too.....:Punk:

[Beemer]

Wow, I'm amazed that you remembered my birthday, let alone arranged for a young Finnish guy to arrive that day as my present! Bring him down to Manfeild on the 4th, I don't mind waiting!

As for his English - I have a few Finnish friends and they all speak excellent English. One said all their movies are in the original English speaking versions with subtitles, so they are used to hearing the language spoken all the time.

[Macktheknife]

Good on ya guys! what a great thing to do, this will give you all stories to tell for years to come! lol
Make sure you bring him out from time to time, so he can learn that you guys aren't the only crazies around, take him to a KB gathering and he will realise you are just wonderful! lol:gob: :dodge:

[BuFfY]

Wow that is awesome!

I guess you (hXc) will get to hear about Finland and decide if it is the place for you, he is more likely to be honest with you about it.

Good luck with it all, it isn't too far away now!!

Will he be at high school with Zac?

[MSTRS]

Thanks Mac. You are looking shaky in the christmas card stakes....:innocent:
And yes, Buffy. At the same school, but in the next year group.

[Waylander]

lol Zac you do realize she'll more than likely be interested in him than you?

[Hitcher]

Chorus: Finland, Finland, Finland.
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
It's the country for me.

Verse: You're so near to Russia,
So far from Japan.
Quite a long way from Cairo,
Lots of miles from Vietnam.

Chorus: Finland, Finland, Finland.
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.

Verse: You're so sadly neglected,
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Chorus: Finland, Finland, Finland.
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.

Repeat: Finland, Finland, Finland.
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
Finland has it all.

Fade: Finland has it all...

[BuFfY]

So how is it all going with the new addition? He enjoying being part of a biker family :)