Well, I assume that only 30 will be arriving then unless they want to be deported just for the fun of it.
I'm surprised that in such a huge bastion of liberal loons they can't find takers for those people that think largely, just like them, but hey.
Posted on 07/03/2005 2:57:02 AM PDT by Caipirabob
July 3, 2005 -- Summer plans for dozens of French kids wanting to visit New York City are toast — the apparent victim of anti-French feelings here since the start of the Iraq war.
World Exchange, a nonprofit organization that coordinates a summer exchange, is scheduled to have 92 French students land in New York this week. But only 30 have a place to stay.
The organization can't find New Yorkers willing to take the rest.
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Man, talk about war stories! Hope she's not scarred for life (just the look of those things would scare me).
Well, in the bathroom, I would guess. :-)
"Exchange" implies that an equal number of American kids are being shipped off to France. Sounds like blatant child abuse to me! LOL
A Peewee hockey league from Massachusetts was "Just children", also, when they made the mistake of visiting Montreal, where they were reviled, humiliated, mistreated and vilified.
They were invited back to Canada by one of the human provinces, where they were royally entertained. Who knows? This may have prevented a war a generation from now!
(Been to Quebec and France. The difference is the airfare.)
Well, in the bathroom, I would guess. :-)
I suppose I should have asked what, not where...
I wonder now that so many mothers work, if there are families who can do this? Maybe it has nothing to do with the fact they are french and there is just a shortage of families.
There doesn't seem to be a shortage in sponsor homes for the summer exchange students of any other nationalities, though.
The French have made a bad name for themselves and there's just no way to sugarcoat that.
This particular situation may or may not be a backlash.
This group must be run by morons if they have 92 kids coming this week and only 30 homes. It sounds as if they intend to just bring them over and coerce New Yorkers into accepting them. I say let the officers of World Exchange keep the remaining 62 in their own homes. They can amuse themselves by singing "We Are the World" and dreaming of no borders.
What does it say for these French parents that they'd send their kids to a foreign country without a place to stay?!
BTW: The Yank-offs still s-ck!
Well, I assume that only 30 will be arriving then unless they want to be deported just for the fun of it.
I'm surprised that in such a huge bastion of liberal loons they can't find takers for those people that think largely, just like them, but hey.
"I'm not near NY, but I may be able to make room for an 18 year old French girl. If she shaves."
Ooooh La La, French girls are so hot. I had a French girlfriend who shaved all over.
Even her back.
Rimshot.
We agreed to take a French student from a similar program about 20 years ago in a similar sounding diverse town in NJ, thru a friend of a friend thing.
When we showed up the US volunteer organizer was short 2 more host families, so we ended up with 3 boys.
My wife and I had a good time with the Frogs (as we called them), John Phillipe, Eric Phillipe and Phillipe Phillipe.
Other than the guest bathroom smelling of Canoe or some other aftershave it was fine.
We took them down to DC for a day and dinner in Georgetown at Le Petit Auberge for crepes. The kid from Brittany thought his mother must be cooking in the back. As we walked thru the town I finally got to make the point that the English architecture here is AMERICAN, the Chinese food here is AMERICAN, the French-style city plan is AMERICAN... its all AMERICAN. That's what AMERICAN means.
They got 3 of the French girls on the tour to cook a dinner party for us at our house on Bastille Day. One girl wore a Chanel dress (my wife said) and dinner was pretty good. I wanted to get into the French spirit and I played my Edith Piaf records for them. They hated it but were grateful that at least it wasn't Charles Aznevour, like their Dads' would have played.
3 years later we hosted 2 girls, since we then had a 1 year old son. They were bitches and no fun at all.
You never know.
I'm surprised. New York is full of America-hating, France-loving Kerry voters...
"Quick, Ferguson! Is that a grisette?"
Did you not read that this was going to be in New York City?
I was thinking along the lines of an 18-30 year old French girl. I don’t care if she does shave – braided pits ain’t all that bad.
The best news I heard so far this weekend.
Since French obstructionism in the UN became an open issue, the Hermes store on uber posh Madison Ave. has not flown its traditional French flags...in the hope shoppers would not hold their nationality against them.
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