You were an exchange student? I've always wanted to be one of those. Any horror stories when abroad, like realizing you had to know more languages, finding a host, getting stuck...?
Stuck where? In the hood? I know a few languages but only English is useful as the other ones either don't belong to a country or aren't fluent, and I only ever stayed at a friends' house, where we have an inseparable dynamic that has survived even my facepalmy brushes with demise.