I am cannot believe how quickly it all happened with our foreign exchange student!!!
Last Thursday I inquired about the program through http://www.cetusa.org/ as I had heard via Facebook that there were in big need of host families as many students were still waiting for placement for this year. Well the ball got rolling quickly....and in the matter of a week we went through a whirlwind!
Informal inquiry, formal application, criminal background checks, psych screening and in-home visit, phone call with the children and hubby, review of student profiles, choosing a great student for our family ... and yep placement of a student!!! That was in one week!!! Ok now let me breathe for a moment .... deep breaths ... in and out!!! I am adding another teenager to the clan :-)
All I can really do is just laugh ... thank goodness I have a great husband and wonderful children who are so loving and accepting when I come up with these crazy insertions to our daily life!
I should mention that we have hosted an exchange student before, so this is not completely new to us. I love opening our home to others and bringing different perspectives and new culture into our family. It is such a wonderful way for everyone to learn and expand horizons. We truly hope that our new "daughter" from Thailand will be a blessing to our family and we hope to bless her with a wonderful experience in the US for the next 10 months.
We are excitedly awaiting her arrival details ... it will be very soon, maybe as soon as Saturday :-)
Now that's cool! I've thought of that before though I'd probably wait till my kids are a little older. How long is it for?
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