From a friend's experience about 3 years ago...be wary of kids that have a keen interest in partying. One of my friends had an exchange student that couldn't seem to remember that the drinking age here is 21 and it caused some serious problems. A family down the street hosted a student that same year that was very well behaved and very focused on improving their English (I don't remember where they were from, just that they spoke Spanish). I think they used YfU. I don't know about the first family. Be careful and be prepared for all eventualities!
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Yayyay! Our Japanese student, coincidentally from the area we adopted our daughters from, arrives tonight! Our Filipina student, coincidentally from the area we adopted our daughter from, arrives in 2 weeks!
I´ve been an exchange student and our family hosted two exchange students aswell. We went with AFS, because it´s non-profit (like YFU) and prepares both students and host-familys very carefully.
Hosting an exchange student can enrichen your life so much, it can open a whole new world both for your family (and kids!) and the student.
I would love to host an exchange student when I'm older!!
The exchange students at my high school were highly embraced by the students & overall wonderful people.
My friends and I got very close to a few German exchange students that year. The German students seemed to be the ones who were most involved around school & in sports as well as a Swedish girl.
Our homestays got canceled on my exchange program in high school unfortunately, so I missed out on that
Follow up on something I posted a while back: think we're going to look at possibly hosting an exchange student either next year or the following one. This year is going to be adjustment year (one more into college, the youngest into HS) so we'll see how we all survive that!
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