Post: Attention folks in and near Nashville
Posted by Jenny Myers on 10/07/08
Dear Tennessee Educators,
The Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team still
need full year homes for students.. the most "critical" is
for Omer from Turkey and Andra from Indonesia. Both are
really good kids! They are both interesting, helpful
around the house (both cook), good students, and well
mannered kids! Please, ask around. We would like to keep
them in the schools they are in already, but don't let that
limit you. We can have them change schools if need be. They
may be in any private or public schools in southern KY or
near Nashville for special meetings as they are scholarship
students. Keep in mind that one does not have to have
siblings and single, widowed and retired folks make great
host parents. We have had many great situations were the
host sibling attended a private school and the AFSer
attended public school. In these cases, the AFSers said
he/she has an opportunity to meet more folks while here.
Andra (Male from Indonesia)
Andra attends Hillwood High School. He is on the cross
country team and likes to write. He helps his host family
with cooking. The host mom in his current family is
leaving for Zambia in the middle of October... so we need a
new family for him very soon.
In Indonesia, Andra was very active in youth organizations
vocal about social problems and awareness. He strongly
believes in working to create a better world for today's
youth. He also likes to write and participates in the
production of his school newspaper. His favorite subject
in school is biology and in the future would like to be a
child psycologist. He looks up to his father as a role
model and likes to help around the house by washing dishes,
washing the car and helping his mother cook. Andra has been
recognized several times by various organizations for the
work he does as an advocate for child welfare. Andra can
live with pets and doesn't smoke
Omer (male from Turkey)
Omer is 17. He is mature for his age (at least it seems so
to me). Omer likes sports and will be on the soccer team
in the spring. He currently attends Hillsboro High School.
Omer is also getting very good grades and his English is
very good. He is in the IB program at Hillsboro and fluent
in Italian as well as Arabic and Turkish. He is
considering going into international relations, but also
likes the idea of owning his own restaurant/hotel some day.
He lived in Italy for a while and is quite self
sufficient. He is great with little kids and can live
with pets, plus doesn't smoke.
Thanks for any assistance that you may give us. If you
would like presentations on our AFS sending programs in the
future, please, contact us and we will bring some of our
thirty (30) current AFSers and our volunteers to your
classrooms.
Sincerely yours,
Jenny Myers
Watkins College of Art & Design
Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team Hosting
Coordinator
www.watkins.edu
615 383-4848
jmyers@watkins.edu
www.afs.org/usa
www.misstennky.org
1-800-AFS-INFO
hosting
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