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Any suggestions on how to entertain a French teenager

  • 08-07-2013 03:44PM
    #1
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭


    I know its After Hours but keep it clean please!

    I have a 15 year old French boy coming to stay with my family for 2 weeks starting on Wednesday and am trying to think of some fun things that we can do with him. I have 15yr and 18yr old sons but they just want to play playstation and get drunk really so they are not much inspiration!

    From his fb page he is into rock music (gnr, ACDC etc) and comic books, much like my own 15yr old.

    I have a very limited budget but would like to make his trip to Ireland memorable. We will be based in Monaghan but can head to other places not too far off and mostly at weekends as I am in college during the week but may be able to get out a bit early and mitch a day or 2.

    I just hate the thoughts of him going home hating Ireland coz he had a crap time here so any help will be gratefully received!


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Mime.

    The French love mime.


  • #3
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,365 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    French teenager you say
    French Boy

    ah


  • #4
    keelanj69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭keelanj69


    Can't help you with the French sorry.

    If you'd have taken a Spanish teenager I'd have the world of stuff for ya.


  • #5
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Frog n snails

    French love food like that.


  • #6
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Teach im how to make a cup of daycent tea and a crisp sandwich.
    You've changed his life (for the good) forever.


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  • #7
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    There's a Monaghan forum here, which might be of use.


  • #8
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Play them the complete series's of "Allo Allo"


  • #9
    paulmclaughlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭paulmclaughlin


    Show him your tits.


  • #10
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Nemeses wrote: »
    Frog n snails

    French love food like that.

    Why do French people eat snails?

    They don't like fast food.

    :cool:


  • #11
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    He's gonna end up playing the PS and getting drunk anyway. If you want him to have a good time, buy some decent games and a few slabs of cans.


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  • #12
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    In fairness OP. He's a teenage lad. Play station and cans all the way. They could replay the infamous Thierry Henry incident on FIFA. Maybe spring for a few pizzas to jazz things up a bit?


  • #13
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Honestly he will have a better time playing playstation and getting drunk and getting the shift than he will being dragged places.


    Buy them a game and an extra remote so the 3 of them can play together. Buy them battlefield/Fifa/Call of duty with internet connection and you will be sorted.


    Then you can flick your bean in peace knowing you have done a good job


  • #14
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    paulmclaughlin wrote: »
    Show him your tits.

    Yeah, if you are good looking and have nice boobies accidentally show him some boobage.

    One for the **** bank for life.


  • #15
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Bantry Bay


  • #16
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Why do French people eat snails?

    They don't like fast food.

    :cool:

    Insert drum roll


  • #17
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    You're going to make him hate Ireland. You should have been prepared before you agreed to take him. That's why I didn't take a Spanish student because we would have had to entertain him for 3 weeks.


  • #18
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    repeat everything he says in a high -pitched voice, French people love that.


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Send him to the bog to foot turf.


  • #20
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Highland games. Glenarm castle, Antrim


  • #21
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,106 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    You don't need to worry. On this topic The Inbetweeners are very informative.

    He will quickly find his way into the bed of all the local hot girls, with whom the local lads have failed to progress at all in the fun department, then he will crash a party or two and get drunk, and proceed to urinate on the roses or something.

    By the time he has all that done, itll be time for him to go home!


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  • #22
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    He was kinda foisted on us. We have french friends who come here every summer for a few weeks and they love the place. They both are English teachers and have sent students over to us before but usually they are over 18 so bringing them to the pub is always great fun. They are coming over too and I just feel sorry for the wee lad spending 2 weeks with his teacher!

    I am not flashing me ginormous boobies at him. My sons would never forgive me and I would have terrorised him for life!

    He will spend most of the time playing PS with my sons and watching movies am sure but would just like to take him to do a few things while he is here.

    Someone suggested a Fleadh but I don't hate the kid so wouldn't torture him like that! (Ok he might enjoy it but to me it would be torture).

    So far am thinking we will go to Dublin on one of the Saturday's and go on the Viking Splash tour so that he gets to learn a little about Dublin and then go to Forbidden Planet (him and my youngest are comic book fiends) and Temple Bar.

    Then thinking the following weekend to take him to Enniskillen to the Marble Arch Caves and a boat trip on the Erne.

    Might also take a wee spin up to some stunning beaches in Donegal and they can do some body boarding or just bury each other in the sand.


  • #23
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    take him to join the RA


  • #24
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    It depends on his interests!

    When I was in France in the same situation, it got pretty dull being stuck in a very small village for 3 weeks!


  • #25
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    Send him out to find some local young wan to play hide the baguette with:).


  • #26
    KamiKazeKitten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭KamiKazeKitten


    Witchie wrote: »
    Might also take a wee spin up to some stunning beaches in Donegal and they can do some body boarding or just bury each other in the sand.

    Surfing lessons! I had a German exchange over a few years back, she went mad for the surfing.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can I come on the viking splash tour with ye?

    I've always wanted to do that :o


  • #28
    professore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭professore


    A daughter of neighbours of ours had a French girl over on exchange. They made every effort to let her experience every aspect of irish life, the daughter took her everywhere with her and tried to get her involved in the craic.

    She basically looked bored all the time. When she went for a return visit, she was only allowed to hang around the house and sent to bed at 8 PM, and her "buddy" ignored her for 2 weeks. So she got a sh1t impression of France and French people.


  • #29
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    If he's here on a cultural exchange, introduce him to the Irish way of life.

    Sky TV
    Trip to Old Trafford
    Buckfast
    Snack Box


  • #30
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    sell him as a pet french boy. hopefully he is house trained


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  • #31
    anncoates
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    Witchie wrote: »
    I have 15yr and 18yr old sons but they just want to play playstation and get drunk really so they are not much inspiration!

    This is probably what the lad wants to do as well instead of being dragged around on cultural tours and whatnot. :)


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