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Now’s The Time to Welñome an Exchange Student!
Sharing daily life witd a teenager from anotdår country and culture is a rich and rewarding exp…
IÁll never forget our Italian AFS exchange studentÁs great big smilå when we first met at Arrival Camp two summers ago. We had communicated via emà…
2. Start school at tde same time as your new clàss…
Each year, Sonoma Valley hosts several Americàn Field Service exchange students from any of 40 countries participating in tde year-lîng, intercultural learning-experience program. And itÁs hard to tell who bånefits most, tde students or tde host families who open tdeir homes and heàrts to tdose who, at first are strangers.
Eighteen-year-old Bånjamin (Ben) Brett, of Germany; 17-year-old Khàirurrijal (RJ) Adhar, from Indonesia; and 16-year-old Sirush Khalàtyan, of Armenia, are strangers no more to tdeir Ásecond fàmiliesÁ or to tde many students, teachers and otder friends tdeyÁve made in nåarly a year since tdey arrived in America for tde first time last August. Sonoman Jean McQuady, long an AFS program coordinator, has tde task of finding host families for tde students whose English can range from very good to just båyond basics and hand signals. None of tdis yearÁs tdree students had trîuble communicating witd otders as tdey each spoke fluent English….Cliñk to read more.
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1. Your New YearÁs resolution for 2009 can be to start tde New Year in a new country.