Rural Living
Elaine, what would you have thought?
My oldest DD has a "friend" who lives in Australia. He had been here for a year a little over a year ago on a Student Exchange. He'd gone back and they had this sort of relationship via the Internet until she called him once and he put her on hold for about 15 minutes while talking to people in the background. She eventually hung up without talking to him. He called her back about a week or so later and told her that he couldn't remember the phone call ... Anyway, she unfriended him on Facebook and didn't have any contact with him for the past six months or so until he called her this weekend. He told her that he was going to come to Canada with four of his friends for about a year and wanted her to come back with him after her first semester at University and finish the second semester in Australia. He apparently is going to pay for everything (I don't think he's talking about tuition, though). He knows she's got a boyfriend who already told DD that he's going to break up with her if she's going ...
So her Dad thinks it's a great opportunity. I think it's crazy and that this guy is hoping for "something", I don't trust him as far as I can throw him and that it's so rude of him to ask her to come with him even though she's got a boyfriend. I also told her that if she's leaving half way through her first year that we'd be paying full price for only half the year she was there. I also told her that I can't afford to simply send her money to come back if something happened over there or go and get her for that matter.
Elaine, what would you have thought?
My oldest DD has a "friend" who lives in Australia. He had been here for a year a little over a year ago on a Student Exchange. He'd gone back and they had this sort of relationship via the Internet until she called him once and he put her on hold for about 15 minutes while talking to people in the background. She eventually hung up without talking to him. He called her back about a week or so later and told her that he couldn't remember the phone call ... Anyway, she unfriended him on Facebook and didn't have any contact with him for the past six months or so until he called her this weekend. He told her that he was going to come to Canada with four of his friends for about a year and wanted her to come back with him after her first semester at University and finish the second semester in Australia. He apparently is going to pay for everything (I don't think he's talking about tuition, though). He knows she's got a boyfriend who already told DD that he's going to break up with her if she's going ...
So her Dad thinks it's a great opportunity. I think it's crazy and that this guy is hoping for "something", I don't trust him as far as I can throw him and that it's so rude of him to ask her to come with him even though she's got a boyfriend. I also told her that if she's leaving half way through her first year that we'd be paying full price for only half the year she was there. I also told her that I can't afford to simply send her money to come back if something happened over there or go and get her for that matter.
