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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"AP-Larla, we are going to Auntie Ems house in Kansas for two weeks over Christmas. If you want to come and work, you will have the downstairs rec room for your space. No one else will be using it during the trip. It has a pull-out couch and half bath; you'll share the main shower upstairs with everyone else. If you don't want to come and use your 2 weeks of vacation instead, that's fine. Just let us know by the end of next week."
There is nothing horrific about this scenario.

It is so, so expensive to travel over Christmas and [b]APs balk at family situations[/b]. One of the reasons I am so jaded on the program. If they're here for a true family-based cultural exchange (as opposed to an education study abroad), why all these posts about APs that don't want to  go to grandma's house. [/quote]

They are already living with someone else's family. I can't blame them for thinking two weeks (!) in close quarters with a lot of other people they don't know and nowhere private to retreat to would be pretty awful.[/quote]

There are other ways to come to the US as a year and enjoy more independence, notably on academic exchanges and as scholars. APs are choosing a cultural exchange visa. Our APs travel couch surfing. These conditions would be A-OK with most APs, I think this one is just trying to get extra vacay and can't afford Disney during the week in question. [/quote]

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