Host Family
The content placed in the 'Host Family' category are blogs and articles that contain valuable tips, entertaining stories, and important information that anyone hosting a student, or interested in hosting a student, can enjoy reading.
One of the biggest misconceptions about hosting an exchange student is that you have to have kids of your own and a spouse or partner in order to become a host family. This isn’t the case! The truth is, you can be single, married, have kids or no kids, be…
With exchange students and host families around the world eagerly awaiting their opportunity to experience cultural exchange, we decided to catch up with one of our incoming students and host families to get a glimpse of how they’re preparing for next year’s program and how virtual connections have already helped…
The Fry Family opened their home to an exchange student from the Czech Republic back in 2015. You can watch Jacklynn explain their thought process, their reservations and the amazing experiences they had once their student arrived. Deciding To Host an Exchange Student The Fry Family went back and forth…
For many international exchange students, few holidays feel more quintessentially “American” than Thanksgiving. Many Thanksgiving traditions revolve around cultural mainstays like football and comfort food, leading many international students to feel particularly excited about experiencing Thanksgiving with their American host family. What are the types of experiences international students look…
If you didn’t know David and Sherry Rollins personally, you would be forgiven for thinking the couple had one of the largest extended families you’d ever seen. After all, nearly a dozen teenagers have come in and out of the Rollins household over the past decade, each staying in their…
