I haven’t written in quite a long time. I’ll just jump right in. The semester is going very well. There is a group of 22 students and so far it has been busy, but going very smoothly. We’ve had the normal problems and ups and downs of the beginning of the semester, getting everyone settled into their houses, dealing with initial worries and problems with the home-stays, but nothing out of the ordinary. For example, many of them are initially very uncomfortable with the fact that their host mother will be doing their laundry for them (“But, I mean, I’m the only one who ever washes my clothes. It just creeps me out to have someone else wash my underwear”). In the end, most of them are amused but pleased when their obsessive compulsive host families
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