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I think the "woo pig sooie" would trump "war eagle" as far as getting strange looks in Europe. We went to the Cotton Bowl one year when Tennessee played Arkansas. Our hotel was full of Hogs and we heard that call day and night. (Especially after Arkansas won.)
I've toyed with the idea of hosting another exchange student, but doing it for the entire school year this time. My friend across the street (who hosted a girl from Germany a few years ago) is also interested. It would be neat if we could do it at the same time. The only bad experience they had was that a teacher (we could have wrung her neck) put it in the girl's head that she needed to try out for cheerleader while she was here. She tried out for the basketball cheer squad, which wasn't as stunt-oriented as the football squad was, but she was still competing against girls who had cheered for years and had cheer-gymnastics backgrounds. Of course, she didn't make it and was heartbroken. My friend confronted the teacher and said "WHY did you encourage that?" The teacher said she thought it would be good for Charlotte to do something they don't have in Europe. Well, the key words are "don't have," so she was attempting something that requires experience and there is a lot of competition for those spots. We found out she loved to swim, so we encouraged her to go out for the swim team -- which she did and it worked out a whole lot better than cheerleading did!
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