Comments on: We’re a Host Family

By: ernie

ernie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

A year huh! Now you won’t have any excuse for not blogging more often . Good luck! Kwento ka.

By: markmomukhamo

markmomukhamo — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

hey cool! I’m sure your Korean guest is as anxious and excited as you. On the upside he might one of those tech crazy Koreans teens I’ve been reading about. ^-^ kekeke!

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ernie: I’m hoping this’ll be fodder for things to blog about for the year ahead.
Mark: Funny you’d say that. When we asked what time it was in Korea, he busted out with this cool Pocket PC-type thingimajig and looked it up for us (of course, looking at his watch would’ve sufficed).

By: Phisch

Phisch — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This will be fun for you guys! Guest, too, of course. When we lived in Manila, we had the priveledge of hosting 4 different highschoolers from the US and Canada. Lots of fun and learning on both sides. One of the guys taught us how to play mahjong! That was backwards

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Four?! You guys are pros at this! Gimme some pointers, Phisch.

By: Phisch

Phisch — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Pros? Hardly, eh. Considering the language at home and the native language of our guests were the same, it wasn’t that hard. Plus, we had them for 8 weeks only I think. They came through a Rotary Club program so they stayed with other Rotary member families. We were the same age, so we just took them to places like Greenhills, shopping in Makati, stuff like that. The other stuff they wanted to do like inuman was bawal for us so they had to go meet up with other people to do that One thing we did learn, though, was when they were new in the Pinas to make them aware of the “bad” words. One guy we hosted didn’t know any, and some of his classmates got him to cuss at his teacher without him knowing. He wasn’t too happy.