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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What other country??? Are we talking Canada? Did you go to college OP? Did you ever skip class??[/quote]

Op here. DC is supposed to be in country x for study abroad. They went to Italy with friends long weekend, missed classes. After the initial where tf are you text chat and what about school question, I got over it shaking my head. But curious what drum parents would do in that situation.[/quote]

omg!!! cut the apron strings!! study abroad is about travel and experiencing world culture. not about an academic grind.  [/quote]
 
Heck. yes! Cutting class is OK periodically if you are managing the course and the expectations. And do it for fun good things, like, road trip to another college for a concert, traveling to another city, first perfect spring day to just hang out on the quad on blankets. [/quote]

If you need more information on the details and the rationale (this is the most serious onion article I have ever read: https://www.theonion.com/account-manager-fondly-remembers-day-in-college-when-ev-1819565644[/quote]

it’s part of being an adult to learn how to make the tradeoffs between fun and work properly.

[b]the only thing I would be disappointed about is if my kid in a study abroad program was hanging out exclusively with Americans and speaking English all the time.[/b] [/quote]

LOL.  I studied abroad.  My spouse studied abroad.  All of our kids studied abroad.  Whether it's a foreign language program or not (and most of ours were), you're spending the overwhelming majority of your time hanging out and traveling with the other Americans on your program.  The only exception is if you're cute and female, in which case you get attention from foreign guys who think American women are easy.

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you only think that because that’s what you did! I spent the majority of my time with native speakers and locals. I deliberately made sure I wasn’t rooming with Americans only. [/quote]

Well, either you are a super nerd, are lying, or were putting out.  Because that's the exception, not the rule.[/quote]

Yikes sorry you're having such a bad day that you need to feel so nasty. I'm another person here who studied abroad and spent at least half the time, if not more, with natives instead of Americans, because I lived in a dorm filled with natives (I was the only American on my floor) and took classes at the university with natives. To this day I have close friends from that country, as well as some of the other Americans in the program.

There were a handful of students in my program who made it a point not to hang out with Americans, just with the native students.

Not all study abroad programs are the same.[/quote]

Did you record your time spent with each group for future reference?  When you traveled during your breaks, did you travel with locals or other Americans?  I find that as time goes by people tend to romanticize and exaggerate these things.   [/quote]

DP:  It really depends on the structure of your study abroad program.  If you go to a university and have a roommate who is from the host country you are way more likely to be immersed.  You're living full-time with students from the country (who are just making friends at the same time you are there) and taking classes that are in the language and are part of the curriculum of the host university rather than special exchange student classes.  I did see other programs where exchange students all lived together, took classes together and traveled together and it did just seem like an American party, but that wasn't how mine was structured.  I'd go to the bars, clubs and restaurants with my roommate and her friends or other people from classes. I  can look at the pictures I took and that's what they are all of so it's not like I have to rely on memory. I also went to the family homes of 6 or so of my friends in all different parts of the country for long weekends and breaks.   
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