[][][][][][][][][][][]Host Families Needed Here [][][][][][][][][][][] (Middle Tennessee)
Reply to: comm-670444740@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-05-06, 3:19PM CDT
Do you have space in your heart and home for one more soul?
International Student Exchange is a non-profit organization formed in accordance with the guidelines of the US Department of State and fully listed with the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel. (see www.csiet.org).
Our students are between 15 to 18 years old, come from over 50 different nations, get good grades, speak English, and want to come to America to get to know us better. Most are athletes. Many are musicians. Their application process is fairly arduous and many are not accepted. They come with insurance and with a minimum of $300 a month spending money to cover expenses beyond the room, board and reasonable transportation expected to be provided by the volunteer host family. Most will attend the public high school for which the host family is zoned, though we do have some with extra money for private schools.
As a host family, you would fill out a host family application which is nine pages long, but no more difficult than the pages of a second or third grade spelling workbook. The application includes pictures, an introductory letter, and an outline of family rules and expectations. The original of this application ultimately ends up in the hands of your chosen exchange student and his or her family. This becomes their introduction to you, and from that point you can communicate prior to your student's arrival, and thus build a foundation for your relationship before (hopefully long before) the student arrives. This is your chance to let them know if they should bring their riding boots, ballet slippers, a winter coat or their favorite cooking spices that might not be available here.
You do not need to have a high school age student already in your home. You do not even need to have other children in your home. Some of our students are very good with little ones and will even enjoy being in a family with small children. If you are concerned that one high schooler would be lonely or bored in your home, we will happily place two of the same gender but different native tongues in your home. They can even share a room.
Host families and students will have the support of a local ISE area representative to provide advice, orientation, and back-up throughout the school year. There is a Regional Advisor here in the Nashville area, a superb Regional Manager in Raleigh, and then the main offices are full of wonderful people in New York. You will enjoy getting to know some of these people as well as your exchange student, his or her family, other students and host families in the area.
I like my job because of all the fun, interesting and intelligent people with whom I get to work.
Please join us.
Feel free to call or e-mail at any hour with questions. The phone takes messages 24/7 but does not record phone numbers when it is off, so please be sure to repeat your phone number clearly.
~Pamela
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Pamela
Tennessee Regional Advisor
International Student Exchange
(615) 568-8556
http://www.iseusa.com
http://www.isesouthatlantic.org
Here are some sample pics of students who may be available for placement in this area.
ShinMyung from Korea Ngan from Vietnam
Nick from Korea Anja from Germany
- Location: Middle Tennessee
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