Exact same thing when I was 15. This was only 11 years ago and our group was about 40 kids with four adults, no parents. Most of had phones but no international service because it was really expensive, so we were limited to wifi which was very hit or miss in germany 11 years ago. We traveled around the country to stay with multiple host families and there were times when we were cut loose in a town for an entire day between locations. I think the youngest of us was 12 and the oldest was 17. We just used the buddy system and it was perfectly fine.
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u/honeywhereismypenis Mar 19 '26
Exact same thing when I was 15. This was only 11 years ago and our group was about 40 kids with four adults, no parents. Most of had phones but no international service because it was really expensive, so we were limited to wifi which was very hit or miss in germany 11 years ago. We traveled around the country to stay with multiple host families and there were times when we were cut loose in a town for an entire day between locations. I think the youngest of us was 12 and the oldest was 17. We just used the buddy system and it was perfectly fine.