What are your weekend plans with your host family?
Here’s Africa from Spain in Washington state, ready to jump into the weekend with her host family’s granddaughter!
Here’s Africa from Spain in Washington state, ready to jump into the weekend with her host family’s granddaughter!
Pia from Norway is experiencing America in Washington for the 2015-16 academic year. In today’s post she shares with us 7 things she has learned as an Aspect Foundation exchange student!
“My name is Maria and I’m from Spain. I have been an exchange student for almost 10 months in Utah. I’m writing this letter to thank all the people that made this experience possible.”
With a month left of the 2015-16 exchange year, our inbox has been overflowing with notes from Aspect Foundation students expressing their feelings as the year comes to a close. Today our post is written by Nimfe from The Netherlands, who shares tips for the new students arriving in September and thanks her host family for ‘making her American Dream come true’!
Aspect Foundation exchange programs don’t just benefit our students, they change our host families’ lives forever. Today we hear from Kathy who describes her experience as a host mom over the past two years, and how through each year of hosting her family grows bigger and bigger!
When our students spend a year experiencing life in a new country, it’s so important that they receive support from both of their families: at home and abroad. Like all Aspect students, Anna relies on her host family for support, guidance, love – and sometimes adventure!
Annette and her husband Max wavered for years about making the decision to host an exchange student. It never felt like the right time. After finally deciding that there was no “right time,” Annette and Max took in Esther, an Aspect student from Germany. Annette was kind enough to speak with us about her experience becoming a host parent, welcoming Esther into her home and growing together as a family.
Last month, we received a special letter from one of our former exchange students, Emmi. The letter traveled all the way from Finland with an important message for you 🙂 Dear exchange students, I have something important to share with you. The year you’re living right now in the US is one of the greatest gifts you’ll …
One of the most common assumptions people make about hosting an exchange student is that only families with teenagers at home have much to benefit. “Our kids are too young; it won’t be meaningful,” or “Isn’t it better to wait until the kids are in high school?” are often heard concerns. Tiffney, a host mom with …
For this week’s Thank You Thursday, we share another round of thank you notes from some of our 21/22 students! This week we hear from Pedro from Brazil, Adita from Indonesia, Manuela from Italy and Sydney from France. The people who I met are the best part of my exchange experience and to live like … Continue reading
We absolutely love the fact that those thank you notes keep coming in! For this week’s Thank You Thursday, we hear from Anna from France, Alejandra from Spain, Fiona from the Netherlands and Edouard from Belgium who all had a fantastic time with their American families during the 21/22 school year. I had the best … Continue reading
For this week’s Thank You Thursday, we continue to share the thank you notes that keep pouring in from our 2021/22 Aspect students as they reflect on the past 10 months and the many, many truly wonderful people they’ve met along the way! Shokran( شكرًا) this is the Arabic word for thank you, this has … Continue reading
For this week’s Thank You Thursday, we continue to share the sweet thank you notes we are receiving from our 2021/22 Aspect students as they express their gratitude for the many amazing people that have made their American adventure the best year of their lives! Thank you guys for such a fun and exciting year … Continue reading
With the current school year drawing to a close, the 2021/22 Aspect students are returning to their home countries one by one. As the students are saying goodbye to their American families and friends we are sharing some of their heartfelt thank you notes for this week’s Thank You Thursday. I dedicate this letter to … Continue reading
This week’s Thank You Thursday, we are sharing a very special thank you letter! Usually we only rarely hear from our students’ parents back home but this time we received a wonderful letter from the father of one of our 21/22 students. Manuel’s daughter, Lucia, spent the past school year in Utah and only returned … Continue reading
Today we share a special student spotlight! Celina from Germany was an exchange student with Aspect 10 years ago spending an amazing time in Texas during the 2012/13 school year. During her most recent visit to see her American family, she kindly took some time to tell us more about her experience, how it has … Continue reading
This week’s Thank You Thursday, Alessandra from Italy shares some advice for our 22/23 exchange students starting to arrive soon as well as some heartfelt thank you to those people who made her time in the US special. Alessandra spent the 2020/21 school year in Wisconsin and her memories of those 10 months couldn’t be … Continue reading
Today, we hear from Lilli from Germany. She spent the 20/21 school year in a small town on a farm in Michigan as part of a double placement with another exchange student from Spain. Read on to learn why – even though everything was different from what Lilli was used to in Germany – her … Continue reading
As our 21/22 students are starting to return to their home countries, their suitcases are packed with wonderful memories of their time in the US. This week’s Thank You Thursday, Soffian from Sierra Leone tells us about some of his favorite American memories: his first experience of playing card games, going camping, watching a movie … Continue reading