HOSTING AN EXCHANGE STUDENT IS A CULTURALLY REWARDING EXPERIENCE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY!
The Fort Morgan Rotary Club is in search of 2024/2025 host families for our exchange student Felipe, a 16-yr old exchange student from Brazil who likes sports, especially soccer, and wants to either go into medicine, technology, or business. Felipe is friendly, adaptable, cheerful, and hard working. Felipe arrives in August and will be attending Fort Morgan High School.
Wouldn’t you like to be a part of sharing Felipe’s hopes and dreams of experiencing life as a student in Colorado?
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
- I should have kids of the same age at home to be a good host parent. The most important aspect we look for in a potential host family is a caring, orderly, and open household. If your family has these qualities, then yours may be an awesome host family. Although children at home may benefit greatly when a family hosts, it is not necessary for a successful exchange.
- I don’t have time. An exchange student is typically very self-sufficient. You won’t need to treat him or her as a visitor to be entertained. The student becomes a member of your family.
- I am a single parent. A single parent may host an exchange student of the same gender. Two parents are not necessary for a successful exchange.
- I can’t host a student the whole school year. Rotary exchange students stay with 3 host families for only 3-4 months at a time to make it easier for families to host and to gain different experiences with multiple families.
Exchange students bring a variety of new ideas and views of the world to the host family. They may offer to cook a meal typical of the home country. He or she will observe and learn from the family what it means to be part of an American family. The host family will learn things about a foreign culture that can’t be gotten from the typical two-week vacation abroad.