In early July, we began to consider hosting a student for a couple months in the fall. We would register the student in our local highschool and provide room, board, love, and guidance for a couple months until he/she met a classmate to move in with for the year.
Zarina jumped off the page of students listed and looking for host families. We let our coordinator, Fariba, know. Fariba interviewed me, checked out our house. We completed background checks with the State Department and gave them personal references (Thanks Monique and Stephanie!). I was concerned it might be another one of my personal agenda's... then Todd excitedly told me, "we can move our old stereo up from the basement and get that old computer working again and she'll have everything a teen could want... should we get her a cell phone, too?" At that point I knew we were all "in".
As we cleaned and prepared her room, talked with the kids again about what having her with us might be like, Todd says (I had already been thinking this), "you know, if it works out, I wouldn't mind if she stayed all year." YEH!!! was my response.
Soon we began to correspond via e-mail. She was adorable. We sent her pictures of our house, us, and the whole family. Todd's parents, Jerry and Carrell, offered to pick her up at the airport and bring her with them to the beach where we would already be. It seemed as though everyone was excited to meet her!
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