Moderator’s Addendum:
And you, Caricci, could make good use of some tact, yourself. Yours was a rather insensitive remark.
I was just being honest and I certainly didn’t name call or anything. My parents were hosts and had a student who did a few silly things herself. If they had sent her home before she wrecked their car, well…let’s just say it would have been better for everyone.
My advice to you, sweetsensation, would be to use this opportunity you have been given and not piss it away (literally and figuratively). Would you like to live in America some day? Then take advantage of the time you have there now. Planning to live in Brazil the rest of your life after this? Then take advantage of all the new experiences you can have in America while you’re there. Either way, losing this opportunity because of drinking would be something you might regret for the rest of your life.
As for the drinking, I wouldn’t say stop drinking altogether even though you sound underage for America, but learn to pace yourself better. Getting a little tipsy is a lot more fun than getting puking, falling down, doing stupid things drunk, and you’re not as likely to get raped, pregnant, a permanent STD, or killed. If you keep drinking too much and doing stupid things while drunk, any combination of these things could happen to you.
I second that.
One of my best friends is a foriegn exchange student from Japan. He had no problems with sowing his wild oats here in the states. Heck his family and “host” family incouraged it. Live life to the fullest…Just learn from your mistakes.
I would.
Organizations that sponsor international exchange programs take this sort of thing very seriously. A FOAF was sent back to Germany after being caught with one can of beer in his room. sweetsensation is very very lucky she hasn’t been shipped back to Brazil already, and unless she is looking forward to being sent home in disgrace she’d best watch herself from now on.
Lamia, thanks for adding to what I’ve been trying to say (obviously not eloquently enough).
The Rotary Exchange program is EXTREMELY tough. Its not a matter of simply finding a family to host you, and forking out money for the plane ticket. There are at least three rounds of interviews you have to go through before being chosen, and throughout that process you are CONSTANTLY having the rules of Rotary Exchange spelled out to you, so that you can decide to drop out before actually going away if you think you won’t be able to handle it.
Rotary only takes those kids who it thinks are the best. It has a reputation to uphold. If you can’t abide by their rules, then maybe it is best to go home.
She could also get her host family in trouble if she’s found with alcohol-couldn’t she?
Let me clarify my position on this matter a little; I don’t think anyone underage should drink at all. In the interests of possibly giving her some advice she might actually take, I moderated my stance to advising her to drink responsibly, which we all should do at all ages. I would love it if kids never drank anywhere; they do, though, and advising them not to seems to be a wasted effort (no pun intended :D). All of which I guess I could have said in my earlier post. C’est le vie, eh?
My advice would be to stop making things up and posting them on internet message boards, but that’s just my opinion.
well THAT was certainly surreal…
snicker Opal, you’re so bad!
What makes you think she’s making it up? Or have I been wooshed…
Heh. I calls 'em like I sees 'em. 
Because it sounds made up to me. It could be true, but my BS alarm went off.
curiousiter & curiousiter…
But you could just as well be wrong. If you want to voice criticism, it will have to be a little more constructive - at least in this forum. Especially if your criticism is based on assumptions rather than facts.
I could swear I’ve seen other people express disbelief about someone’s post in MPSIMS before.
I could swear I never said disbelief was outlawed.
I also could swear I said that criticism was fine if it was constructive.
Finally, I could swear your initial response in this thread wasn’t.
Only one I remember is the softcore adventures of the pajama girl, and then people went line by line almost :).
Isn’t the Standard Operating Procedure on this board to report suspect posts to a Moderator, rather than accusing people of trolling in the thread?