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Any suggestions on how to entertain a French teenager

Witchie

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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Oink

Artful_Badger wrote: »

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.

eh - no, not necessarily. Underage drinking is not quite as widespread as you seem to think in Europe. Not yet anyway. Give it time.

Good luck with that OP (You're in the wrong forum if you expect serious answers though).

Citycap

Show him videos of Monaghan's All Ireland successes. That will cover about 5 minutes. Then introduce him to your neighbour's daughter. Cest la vie

Koptain Liverpool

My family had a French teenager when I was younger. During the week I think he'll be happy enough to hang about with your 2 sons and their friends a lot of the time. I'm sure he's into computer games also.
And maybe organize some activities for them to do together one or two evenings (eg bowling in Castleblaney, cinema etc).
Have a BBQ one or two evenings and maybe your sons could invite their friends.
At the weekends take him and your sons for one or two daytrips (Giants causeway, Newgrange etc).
Maybe let your sons and him head to Dublin on the bus one of the days to do some sightseeing, visit music and comic chops etc.

Burkey0

Don't pray to God to get rid of him and certainly don't bring him to Crazy Golf during a thunderstorm, your guilt and grief after the inevitable happens will begin to break you (and at least one biddy will "know what you're up to")

keelanj69

Burkey0 wrote: »

Don't pray to God to get rid of him and certainly don't bring him to Crazy Golf during a thunderstorm, your guilt and grief after the inevitable happens will begin to break you (and at least one biddy will "know what you're up to")

I hope you are Iranian and this is a bad google translation of what you wanted to say.

Citycap

Bowling in Castleblayney! Mon Dieu Dis is crazee

How about playing disguises as in this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZelPcA2Dz2c

Witchie

Yeah we will do blayney bowl, possibly take them paintballing too.

Had thought about going surfing and camping in Donegal buy my 15yr old says he hates camping now. Jaysus!

Burkey0

keelanj69 wrote: »

I hope you are Iranian and this is a bad google translation of what you wanted to say.

I hope you're Ghanaian and Irish/British sitcoms never made it round your way

OU812

Should have got a French girl. The 18 year old would have kept her amused for the whole trip.

Seriously though, teach him how to make a white flag and run away from things.

No, absolutely seriously. Haven't a clue.

shane9689

i did an exchange before in school, 4 years ago since i did it..but i think the thing he enjoyed the most was just hanging out with me and my friends....making new friends and having the laugh is all you really want to do at that age, he got to know more about irishness hanging with us than he would have standing on a rock looking at a field

The Backwards Man

Burkey0 wrote: »

I hope you're Ghanaian and Irish/British sitcoms never made it round your way

keelanj69 wrote: »

I hope you are Iranian and this is a bad google translation of what you wanted to say.

I hope you're both Martians with tentacles coming out of your foreheads.

Citycap

Bring him to a pub in Cavan. Nail a Euro coin to the floor, sit back and watch the locals trying to scoop it up without anyone knowing.

keelanj69

Burkey0 wrote: »

I hope you're Ghanaian and Irish/British sitcoms never made it round your way

I dont know what to google to find out what that is so I can't even pretend to know what that was about.

Burkey0

Monaghan you say... does this French boy like riding hippos? Half-serious question

Burkey0

keelanj69 wrote: »

I dont know what to google to find out what that is so I can't even pretend to know what that was about.

You're alright blud, it's from Father Ben

Nemeses

Another suggestion.

French love women! Sent them to a disco / nightclub / place to meet ladies

That will keep them busy.

Just remember to give them protection - Safety First!

alchemist33

Witchie wrote: »

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.

Sounds like you're on top of it (except for underestimating the power of boobies!)

Isn't there some sort of rally experience place in Monaghan? Failing that, look for more adrenaline; maybe go-karting or quad-biking or paintball?

who the fug

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Bantry Bay

Can't see that working very well

And here the French navy cut and run because of the wind , here a french company caused the worst accident in the states history , here the french fished out the the sea urchins.

keelanj69

Sucker punch him while wearing your Nazi uniform. He will do whatever the hell you want him to do after that.

I Heart Internet

You can find everything you need to know in this episode of The Inbetweeners:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bnSW2a_H80

Witchie

Deleted User wrote: »

Can I come on the viking splash tour with ye?

I've always wanted to do that

Of course you can!

Just discovered that the World Street Performance thingy is on in Dublin this weekend too. Did anyone go to it last year? Was it any good?

I don't think the teenage disco is on either of these weekends and he doesnt look old enough to get into the real thing. Also my eldest lad will prob be working the weekend nights so he would have no one to go with. I might send them in to the cinema one night as that seems to be the place to pull young wans round here.

the purple tin

Witchie wrote: »

Of course you can!

Just discovered that the World Street Performance thingy is on in Dublin this weekend too. Did anyone go to it last year? Was it any good?

I don't think the teenage disco is on either of these weekends and he doesnt look old enough to get into the real thing. Also my eldest lad will prob be working the weekend nights so he would have no one to go with. I might send them in to the cinema one night as that seems to be the place to pull young wans round here.

Tread softly. I don't think his parents would appreciate you making them grandparents

wil

Nemeses wrote: »

Another suggestion.

French love women! Sent them to a disco / nightclub / place to meet ladies

That will keep them busy.

Just remember to give them protection - Safety First!

Might I suggest a baseball bat. (I'm not sure I'm even joking)

Gran Hermano

Pick up the following:
Pen
Writing paper
Envelopes
Postage stamps

You can open Monaghan's first French letter factory

Gmol

Bring him to a strike so he won't feel homesick preferably where the roads are blocked by cattle

Witchie

Ummm here is some more fodder ooops I mean info...he's from a place called Arras......

Tombi!

Why not just bring him to some famous places?
I mean he's a teenager but depending on what he'd like to do can depend.
Also he's probably not gonna be used to the life of getting hammered.

Wattle

Tell him that his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberry's.

Agricola

Whatever ya do be sure to feed him with copius amounts of schpuds, bacon and cabbage for the fortnight. He might as well get a taste of quality cuisine before he returns to ate that foreign rubbish.

bgrizzley

Teach him proper Irish football, no bother handling the ball there...

GAA