What do host siblings and families say about welcoming an AFS Exchange Student into their homes?
“I’ve learned a lot about the way other people act and live. My hardest adjustment was having someone else get all the attention around the house. But I’ve learned a lot about living with people other than my family and I’ve really enjoyed having a sister.” -Paul, host brother in Kansas
“We learned to look at how we interact as a family in a slightly different way; Barbara made us think about why we did things the way we did, and we learned to take into consideration a different point of view. We have another daughter/sister now, altho she is living in another country. It makes the world much smaller than I thought it was. -Family who hosted a student from Austria
“I felt we had a wonderful experience. We came away with expanding our family with a very international twist. My girls feel that they now have another brother (and they did see him as a brother) that has just gone off for a while (like their real brother when he went to college.) They know that they will see him again either in his country or back here some day. We now have connections across continents.” -Host Mom who hosted a student from Belgium
