As I said in my last post, we had "housers" last weekend. Now I will explain in more detail the definition of a houser. I had some friends email to guess, but all of you were wrong. Sorry!! Whenever sporting teams travel, they have to have a place to stay. Picture this. Every time our football, basketball or rugby teams play a game, we have to find schools with similar programs to ours. We play teams from Paris, London, Germany, Luxemboug, etc. Since the comute is so far, the teams have to stay overnight. The families of the team puts up the kids from the opposing teams in their homes for the evening, usually "housing" 2-3 kids in each house. It is a common practice.
On this particular occasion, our school hosted an international Math competition. Kids traveled to our school from places as far away as Africa. There were 200 competitors in all so many families volunteered to help with the housing of the visitors. We took in 3 girls from Bilbao, Spain. They were cute, quiet and spoke great English. We had a good time and even met up with another family housing 3 boys from Barcelona. There were 16 of us at a Valentine's Day dinner. It probably wasn't the best night to bombard a restaurant which such a big party, but we had fun anyway.
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That's a really cool thing to be involved in. And what a neat way to meet people from other countries.
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