Share Your Home for up to a Year.
Enjoy a Friendship for a Lifetime. |
Really LIVE the IB principles and be an open-minded, risk-taking, life-long learner! Open your home and family to an exceptional student from another part of our globe!
"When you host a foreign exchange student, your entire family will discover a world of fun and enlightening adventure. Simply by sharing your home for as little as three months, a semester or a school year, you will be giving an exceptional young person from another country the opportunity of a lifetime-to live with your family and experience the language, customs and culture of our country. In return, your exchange student will bring to your family a bit of his or her homeland. Students come from Europe, Asia/Pacific, the Middle East, the Americas and South Africa.
Before a student is considered for the ASSE program, he or she must exhibit exceptional qualities. Students are selected on the basis of their high academic standing, fine character and proven ability to get along with others. This is determined through interviews, written recommendations and academic records - so you may be sure the student who comes to your home is a bright, exemplary citizen. When you and your student meet face to face for the first time, ASSE doesn't want you to feel like strangers. That's why your family will be involved in the selection process; you'll see a photo collage of your student in his or her home environment among family members and friends, and you'll read an autobiographical essay or "Dear Host Family" letter written by your student. In addition, to get a head start on cultivating your friendship, you'll have an opportunity to correspond with each other before your student's arrival." (except from the ASSE website)
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