Ten months have come and gone.
This morning we are taking Datter to the airport to start her journey home. (It will take her nearly 24 hours to reach her house.)
She was a great girl and really seemed to enjoy her time in the States. In fact she’s planning on coming back next summer for a visit (though we think her boyfriend may be the driving factor for that trip) and when she does, she says she’s going to stay with us again.
It’s been a year of ups and downs (living with any 16 year old girl is a life of ups and downs – IMO), but we will miss her presence and come the Fall, when Boy goes back to college, the house is going to seem very, very quiet.
At this point we are done hosting. It hasn’t been our experience with Datter, but our experience with the local coordinator. The EF coordinator is suppose to contact us at least once a month to check in. At the beginning, she also talked about planning group activities once a month for all the local exchange kids to get together.
The only group activity was the Christmas Party that we hosted.
And she went weeks and weeks without contacting us – I’m talking 6 to 12 weeks at a time.
And complicating that, she didn’t return our phone calls or emails. And that did cause some problems during the year.
Oh well. Datter is packed and heading out the door.
What did you think?