help needed with host families

[Tanis Andrews]

Hello this is Tanis Andrews down on 13th, you may have seen my plea for Host families.  I have 8 students coming from France on Friday, I have been trying through school groups to find host families for several months and for one reason or another all but two have fallen through.  I have two girls, six boys and one teacher coming from July 10th to august 16th for a home stay experience.  The students that I need help finding homes for are the teacher who is a lady in her 30s and the teenage boys.  They all are junior and senior in high school 16 years old, they are bringing their own money, are insured.

I know folks are heading our of town for a week here and there so if its not a simple family trip where you could take another person, like to your cabin, I'm placing students for two weeks in one home and two weeks in another if I have to. They do not have daily activities planned but if we're in a close geagraphic area there are so few that we could coordinate activities among families to trade off activities or have students come to my house during the day, or work something like that out. 

Any help I could get or if you could pass this along, please have them contact me and i'll do the host family ap quickly.  They are coming through TerraLinguausa.org

Thanks
Tanis Andrews
801-755-6550

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[Jack A. Powers]

Tanis,

I am hosting the sister of my 2006 German Student for the Summer. So I
can't help. But I did see your signs and considered it until this
opportunity to re-host a prior family's child.

However, I want to express to our group the wonderful experience of
cultural that can be had hosting a student for the summer.

As noted, this summer we have the sister, Roya, of the 2006 Summer
Student from Germany, Laura.

Laura was such fun and according to Roya, had a great time. Laura
learned our culture, improved on the language [yes, they do speak
English]. She went to Lagoon, Boondocks, Thanksgiving Point Gardens,
Dino Museum, Movies, Jazz Summer Game, swimming pool, Bee's Game,
political events, church events and many other places at their own
costs.

Many things Laura did were free, such as Draper Days Events, Cabela's,
downtown Salt Lake, museums, Clark's,

We took a trip to Yellowstone and took her with us, however, much of
her transportation was on public transportation such as Trax.

But most of the time was spent being part of our family. They are not
to be treated as guests but as family members. i usually give a day or
two to adjust to the time change then they are full pledged family
member.

They have chores, maybe even cook a cultural dish, take part of family
activities [such as birthdays], attend services [this is not a time to
try an convert but to allow experiencing the American Culture], even
watch local TV or whatever you do as a family.

We even host for the school year, though too late in our school
district for this year. We have a girl from Norway, Anette, spending
2009-2010 with our family. If you happen to see her, introduce
yourslef. She'll enjoy it.

Anette will be approximately the 15th Exchange Student we have hosted
for either the summer or school year since 2001. I hosted 2 prior
since about 1989.

If Tanis ends up with students without homes, it will be our families
and children that lose out on a missed opportunity for a wonderful
experience.

Good luck, Tanis. Good luck, Draper.

Jack A. Powers
Draper



On Jul 5, 9:28 pm, Tanis Andrews <tanislou...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello this is Tanis Andrews down on 13th, you may have seen my plea for Host families.  I have 8 students coming from France on Friday, I have been trying through school groups to find host families for several months and for one reason or another all but two have fallen throughes..  I have two girls, six boys and one teacher coming from July 10th to august 16th for a home stay experience.  The students that I need help finding homes for are the teacher who is a lady in her 30s and the teenage boys.  They all are junior and senior in high school 16 years old, they are bringing their own money, are insured.

>
> I know folks are heading our of town for a week here and there so if its not a simple family trip where you could take another person, like to your cabin, I'm placing students for two weeks in one home and two weeks in another if I have to. They do not have daily activities planned but if we're in a close geagraphic area there are so few that we could coordinate activities among families to trade off activities or have students come to my house during the day, or work something like that out.  
>
> Any help I could get or if you could pass this along, please have them contact me and i'll do the host family ap quickly.  They are coming through TerraLinguausa.org
>
> Thanks
> Tanis Andrews
> 801-755-6550
>

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[Tanis Andrews]

Thank you so much for your support.  As a host mom of nine former Japanese students, I couldn't have put it better. 

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Tanis Andrews