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 …
Can you believe it’s already February?! 2021 is off to a great start! It’s also the first Thursday of the month! This Thursday we bring you Joshua from Germany. Joshua has spent the academic year with his host family in Texas and he’s incredibly thankful for those that have helped make his school year so … Continue reading
It’s Thursday and this week we’re bringing you a very special Thank You Thursday! Bilal from Pakistan was selected for the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program sponsored by the US Department of State. He was initially planning to spend the 2020-21 academic year in the United States. However, due to COVID-19, the past couple … Continue reading
Thank you Thursday is here! Each Thursday we bring the warm words of some of our thankful current and former students. Our students are so excited to share how grateful they are for the experience and we love to spread their message! This week we bring you Takashi from Japan. Takashi has spent the current … Continue reading
January 2021 is underway and it’s Thursday! Our Aspect Foundation inbox has thank you notes from many of our students, current and former, and on Thursday we like to share the positive things these wonderful students have to say. This week we bring you the words of another current French student, Marie. Marie is a … Continue reading
It’s the first Thursday of 2021, which means it’s also the first Thank You Thursday of the year! Our Aspect Foundation inbox has lots of thank you notes from lots of our students, current and former, and on Thursdays we like to share the notes of these students. This week we have the words from … Continue reading
Today is the last Thursday of 2020 and that means it’s time for the last Thank you Thursday of the year! At the end of a turbulent year like this it’s hard to think of many positives, but bringing these students to the United States to fulfill their dreams was a bright spot that reminds … Continue reading
As we prepare to close out 2020, we bring you the last Thank You Thursday of the year from one of our students. This unparalleled year has been so difficult for so many of us, but it helps to always be thankful for the things and people that make us happy. Someone who would like … Continue reading
During the holiday season, we tend to think of the people and things we are thankful for especially during the past year. Thursday is the day Aspect Foundation brings you the grateful words from our students, former and current, who like to say a few things about their experience. This week, we bring you our … Continue reading
Thursdays are for saying Thank You here at Aspect Foundation. Every Thursday we like to bring you the nice and thoughtful words from some of our current and former students who are thankful for their USA adventure and those who were a part of it. This week we have Beatriz from Brazil, who is so … Continue reading
At Aspect Foundation, we receive so many thank you messages from our current and former students, who are so grateful for the experience they got to have here in the United States and to all of the people involved in making their dreams come true. This Thank You Thursday, we bring you Rebecca from Italy. … Continue reading