The other day I was showing the boys the weekly chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere! The boys who had never come across anything like this before started jumping out of the windows. Sometimes I wonder     1    , most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway. To be honest, I doubt     2    .

Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good advice. Although some foreign students live in student accommodation or apartments,     3    . Living with host families, in which there may be other college students, gives her the chance to learn more about a new culture. “When I hear an idiom that I don’t understand, I can ask my host family for help ,” explains Xie Lei. “Also, when I miss my family,     4     .”