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BTW, the exchange student didn't work out well at all, but she's back in Norway now... Our daughter's best buddy is from Austria and she's visiting us now. I wish she would have been our exchange student, but you don't get a guarantee that your student will be someone you can understand, like or want to be around...

After our daughter's boyfriend was killed and my MIL passed (they were very close!), last year was challenging for our family, but especially our daughter. She managed to graduate with honors, get "most valuable rower" for her senior year on the HS rowing team and she played cello in the school orchestra, danced and swam on the swim team, so she recovered as well as we could have hoped for... Having the "least friendly exchange student" certainly didn't help...