Open your Heart and your Home

Open your Heart and your Home
Host an International Exchange Student with CIEE

CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) is seeking host families for international high school exchange students for the 2015-2016 school year. Our students come to the U.S. from over 55 different countries and spend 5 or 10 months studying at an American school, living with an American family, and immersing themselves in an exciting and rewarding cultural experience.

Marijose from Mexico is looking forward to a life-changing experience:

Hello Host Family! My name is Marijose and I love to dance! Ballet Jazz and Hip Hop, I would love to be a Cheerleader and show you my moves! I hope this year to be a wonderful experience where I can learn another culture, other customs, live and meet other family and be able to show you how amazing it is to live on Mexico and all that our country has. As a Community Service I could teach Spanish and Soccer to the little kids. I hope my family likes animals very much, because I love animals, I hope you are happy to receive me as much as I am for going, and hopefully I have brothers or sisters, I prefer not being alone, I would like to they take me affection as a member of the family. I’m dying to know more about you too, let me find what the US is all about!!

Our students will arrive in August, and our team of local coordinators is working hard to find families in the Pittsburgh area who will welcome one of these young ambassadors into their home and family. CIEE accepts all types of families (kids, no kids, empty nesters, etc.) All that is required of our families is to provide a bed for the student and an extra plate at the table.

If you or someone you know would be interested in learning more about becoming a host family, please contact me at kirsten.raether@gmail.com and I will be happy to answer any of your questions.

More information is also available on our FB page: www.facebook.com/CIEEofWesternPA