Hosting an Exchange Student

We have recently decided to host an exchange student from Norway. We will call her "S". This has already been a very good experience even though she only arrived here on Aug 2nd. We love her already. Did you have any idea that hosting an exchange student can make you look at your life differently? You have to go through interviews and background checks before you can even meet the family online. Then of course you try to get your home in order so that this person that has never met you won't walk in the door on their first day in America and run away screaming. Believe me that was a possibility since we had just finished having a massive yard sale and you know that will destroy any house. Just as a side note here that you all for letting me vent on the Take My Junk Please Post. It must have worked though because most of my junk was bought. Everyone that supports this now raise both hands, pump them up and down and say yaaaay!

Now back to being a host family. Our new Norwegian daughter "S" has really started to fit in around here. We are so very happy to have her. She is now getting her schedule ready for school and we will officially, again, be the parents of a senior in high school. This time I think I will handle it better because I already know sort of what to expect. It does take some adjustment and I am sure that she has a little fear of the unknown, but that is one thing we are here to help her with. I hope we can make this a fun learning year and that she will go home with very happy memories. I'm sure I will find a lot of things to write about now that we have started something new around here. So I hope that each of you reading this will keep up to date and enjoy this experience right along with us. I promise not to start writing Norwegian words because with this southern accent they don't sound anything like they are suppose to so I know writing them couldn't be much better.

This is a very short post just to let you know what to expect in the future. Hang on tight this is going to be a fun year of learning and experiencing America through new eyes and ideas. Hope you will join us.

Be Blessed,
Tammy