Hosting Spanish Exchange Student - nervous!

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Sorry - not sure where to post this - but thought those with teenagers might have experience of this to share with me.
So 16 year old son will be off to Spain for 3 weeks and Spanish teen will be coming to stay with us a few months later. We are quite an introverted family, live outside a small village. I am worried that the Spanish teen will be fed up here. Obviously we will go places with them and try to give them a great time but I'm nervous.
In particular I worry about the evenings - our teens like looking at movies/gaming and go to bed by 10.30/11.00 on school night. They don't meet up with anyone during the week - too far away from most friends.
I think Spanish teens tend to meet up and hang out, stay up later etc. Will they be bored and unhappy with our set-up? Can anyone give me their experience of hosting exchange students from Spain aged 16ish? Overthinking this I know...

We hosted a spanish exchange student a few years ago and the evenings were the most difficult part because in spain they are used to staying out very late with friends so it was a shock for our host to not socialise late at night. We did a lot of activities with other host partners at DS school like bowling and going out for tea. One night they went to a football game and went roller skating. They also invited other host students round and ordered a takeaway. Honestly it was a hard and expensive week but it was worth it!! There’s nothing wrong with having an evening in at home and watching TV, that’s what DS did when he went to spain.

Thanks for replying, I don't think the school will organise anything in the evenings - but there probably will be one more student in our village so will combine forces with that family!

We had a French boy last year, he organised his own social life with his French mates who were also here

We did not have to entertain him much as such, he’d say he was meeting his friends in town fir a movie and dinner, my DS and some class mates went along too

I taxied a fair bit. I did check with his mum she was happy with the set up (them going out unsupervised)

I took part in a similar exchange not too many years ago. Basically it depends on how well matched the kids are - I took to one of the clubs I attended one evening, and we had a party at someone's house another, but the best evenings both here and there were chatting, listening to music, playing board games etc. We did both have a pretty decent command of each others' language though. Don't stress though, they will probably prefer to work it out between themselves as there is nothing less cool than your mother trying to organise a social life with your new cool Spanish friends

Thanks for all the replies. We are rural, no public transport etc so we will be ferrying them around if going anywhere so need to be a bit involved! There will only be one other exchange student in the area. At least our DS is doing the first leg of the exchange so we will have some sense of what they are like/into before they come!

I live in Spain and the Spanish do keep very different hours. He'll be used to having dinner around 9/10pm and they stay up much later than British kids. Which part of Spain is he coming from? Where I live, the teens are at home during the weekday evenings, but always out with their friends late over the weekend. Depending on the teen, some are very into sport and going to the gym, others not so much!! A lot seem into gaming, so weekday nights could be taken up with that. They're also used to studying a lot, so if they have school work etc to do, they should be in a routine with that.

Maybe he will meet some of the locals or a boy/girl to have a romance with 😁 The Spanish accent should go down well among the locals!!

I organize student travel and exchanges. They don't come expecting Spanish lifestyle, they come wanting to experience British life for a week or so, like presumably your son is looking forward to doing in Spain.
I'd be surprised (and a bit miffed tbh) if the school weren't organising at least a few evening activities.