Consider enriching your family by hosting a high school exchange student!!!

When we started hosting we had 3 teens of our own. We truly enjoyed having our International Children along with our own. However what we have discovered over the years is that we enjoy them even more now. We never liked having an empty nest. We tried it for a few years but found we were becoming much less active. We lost contact with our school because we did not receive the notifications since we did not have any one in school. We finally went back to hosting again and find it keeps our lives much more full and rewarding. We feel needed again. We have so much fun showing off our beautiful part of the country, "The Ozarks" with them plus going to their school events. Our grown children feel better knowing we are not home alone. This past year we added Anna from Brazil to our family plus Tom from Slovakia. They kept us too busy to worry about being lonely or left out.

To learn more about the benefits of hosting and sharing your life with one of these amazing students, or any other available exchange student, please send us a Facebook message, make a post comment, email ICES regional director Donna White at dwhite@icesusa.org or call 417-207-1174 for more information. Thank you!