Every year of my high-school career, our neighbors across the street hosted a Japanese student. I remember we used to get nice sized groups of all the exchange students and quite a few students from school and we'd do things like go bowling and such.

I remember in my freshman year, it was the first year that Afghani students could participate in foreign exchange. It was very good, because at the time we were at war and having him coming silenced a lot prejudiced thoughts and edjucated much of the student body about what Middle-Eastern people really are like.

We also had German kids quite often. My senior year there was a girl from Germany who was VERY sarcastic, so that meant we had to instantly be best friends.