Bring the World to Your Family! Need Great Host Families for Maria, Beat, and Yana!

Bring the World into your home! Open your home and heart to an international exchange student!

We are currently looking for host or even welcome families in open schools for Maria, Beat and Yana!!! As a host family, you can learn about another culture, enjoy a new lifelong friendship, fulfill the dream of a young person, be an ambassador for America, have a great experience, and much more. Contact me or see www.ciee.org/host for more information.

FSL14030R1 – Girl. Maria is a 17 year old girl from Madrid, SPAIN. “My name is Maria, but my Friends call me Mary!! I’m a bit shy girl so most of the time I’m smiling before talking until I get confident. I love my family because is a big family which I like the most.” Maria has 3 siblings at home. She has experience as a babysitter, and worked in a soup kitchen. Her favorite subject is English, and she loves pop music, volleyball and paddle. She likes to bike around Madrid and swim at the beach in the summers. She loves to cook desserts, and of course, she loves shopping and fashion. DPOK SPOK, Student would like to attend Catholic service in the US GPA: 2.90 SLEP Score: 53 Program Length: 10 months Orientation: NY4 Private School: No. Allergies: None

OEG14116 – Boy. ANUTORN is a 16 year old boy from THAILAND. My name is Beat. I live at Thailand. I am friendly. I would like to be friend to anyone. In my free holiday, I usually play games then go out to have lunch with my family. I like to practice break-dance and watch a movie with my family. I like to sing and I am a guitar player. I was a leader of dancing team name south of Thai in my school and dance show on school festival. I was very happy. While I’m there, I want to teach you some of Thai culture such as how to speak Thai. I am so sure that you all will have a lot of fun. His teacher describes him as having a great sense of humor and personality. Beat has one younger brother. GPA: 3.10 SLEP Score: 52 Program Length: 10 months Orientation: NY4 Private School: No. Allergies: None

FLX14024 – Girl. Yana is a 16 year old girl from UKRAINE. I think that I am a cheerful and open-minded person. I can find a common language with different kinds of people, so you can guess that I have a lot of friends. I try to be active in school life. I organize many school events and am a radio host in our school radio. I play volleyball in our school section and I like to watch hockey and football. My other hobbies are drawing, reading and writing. I like to write poems and small stories about different adventures of different people. In the future I want to become a journalist or translator. My family consists of my parents , my grandparents and my little sister. Our family is big and friendly! We have a parrot, two cats and two dogs. My dream is to see with my own eyes how you celebrate Christmas, New Year and Halloween! GPA: 3.80 SLEP Score: 54 Program Length: 10 months Orientation: G 08/18/14 Private School: No. Allergies: None Plays Volleyball

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