InsaneJournal

Homesick, passive-aggressive teen girl. Oh, joy.
So, we've got an exchange student from Taiwan living with us for the summer to work on her English before starting school in the fall.  She's got classes this summer, plus living with an English speaking family (us).  Last two weeks, she's been often saying she was sick and staying home from school.  This is suspicious since we haven't seen any symptoms except a runny nose and sleeping a lot.

What's probably been happening: she's been staying up all night IMing her friends back home, and sleeping during the daytime.  So now, not only does her computer stay out in the living room, but I'm going to be disabling wireless in the house when I go to bed.

Mom chose not to directly tell her we know she's almost certainly been lying and staying up late IMing, but she's not stupid.  Nor was she happy about having to leave her computer out in the living room, and she wasn't getting ready for bed when Mom knocked on her door at bedtime, so she may be thinking of coming out here after the household is asleep.  Hence disabling wireless.  But she didn't directly try to challenge anything.

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