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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]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]

wow um ok. I can assure you I was out at the bar with my local roommates. And yes, studying the language diligently. The great thing about being a language nerd abroad is that going to bars and watching TV constitute nerding out. Most of the American friends I had abroad or have spent serious time studying language or cultures leave the US because they want to be immersed. That’s kind of … the whole point?

but yeah there always is a subset of obnoxious americans who seem to view study abroad as a giant frat party.  I would be disappointed if my kid was one of those. [/quote]
NP. My dd studied abroad in Spain. She enrolled directly in the Spanish university, but there were 15 other students from her university who were also enrolled so she mostly hung out with them. Plus she had a few other friends from her university who were also studying in various places in Europe so she met up with them on her weekend trips. She's never been much of a partier, but did go clubbing for the first time which I think is awesome! There weren't dorms there and the natives seemed to mostly commute in from distances up to an hour away.

Still an amazing, transformative experience. Living in a new country for a semester or a year, solidifying her knowledge and use of the Spanish language (that she now uses every single day in her career as a bilingual nurse in a low-income, predominately Hispanic neighborhood in NYC), taking classes conducted entirely in that language, navigating all sorts of things she'd never done before...why on earth would I be disappointed about that?! She learned so, so much, challenged herself, and came back with a newfound sense of independence and strength *Shrug* Trying to dictate my kid's study abroad experience is just sooo not me. Because, you know, it was HER experience not mine. Different strokes, I guess. [/quote]

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