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Family Thais: October 2010
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Monday, October 11, 2010. Wednesday marks the two month “anniversary” of Penny’s arrival to our golden shores. That means 1/5 of her stay is over. I can hardly wrap my mind around that! It does not seem like 2 months at all. Seriously. This set the wheels in Penny’s head spinning. She asked me what I thought. I told Penny that she will be more likely to return to Thailand thinking, “Oh, I should have gone to Homecoming! 8221; than she would b...
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Family Thais: December 2010
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Can It Be Nearly Christmas! I had suggested she take a sick day on the 9th so we could go to the National Tree Lighting (I know, bad momma! 8221; and push them off, and by the end of the evening, she was a pro. She also approached someone she didn’t know at the party and she struck up a conversation with them and I was very proud to watch her interaction with them. Thursday morning, I happened to get up early with ...
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Family Thais: New York, New York
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Monday, June 27, 2011. New York, New York. Initially Penny said she only wanted to see the Statue of Liberty, she didn’t really care if we actually took the boat over to Liberty Island. However, New York and fate had other plans for us—it was an absolutely MISERABLE day, hot and wet and foggy, and when we go to South Ferry, we couldn’t see our hands in front of our faces, much less the statue! Once on the island, I issued Penny a stern warnin...
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Family Thais: February 2011
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Do You Want to Host? Although we do not plan to host next year for a variety of reasons, I highly recommend that people who are interested in hosting submit an interest form to AFS and listen to what they have to say about the hosting experience! If in reading my blog, you’ve felt interested in hosting in any way, please visit http:/ www.afsusa.org. And let them know that you’d like to know more about hosting!
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Family Thais: September 2010
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Monday, September 27, 2010. Another Week Has Gone By. Can it really be that a week ago already we were celebrating Penny’s birthday? I can’t even believe it! This past week has been full of new experiences for our girl and interesting discussions and just general life. Penny said she really liked it, although it was very different from anything she’d ever eaten before. I’m happy to hear it, because she has a lot of pie to eat! Hates school or...
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Family Thais: August 2010
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Today was Stafford High’s New Upperclassmen Orientation and then its school-wide open house. I decided to take Penny to both, as I felt it would be great if she could meet other kids entering upper grades who were in the same boat she was. You go to school and I will be a housewife! I think she is going to have a great year. I hope she will put herself out there and really make friends and have a blast. She t...I dec...
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Family Thais: March 2011
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Thursday, March 31, 2011. I was somewhat disappointed when Penny got here and promptly informed me that she hates reading, as reading is a great passion of mine. I was determined to make the kid read something, and it has taken me 7 months, but I found a book she wanted to read…. Yes, people, we are reading The Hunger Games. On The Road Again! I was SO disappointed, but since Penny is afraid of heights, she was happy not to be going up there&...
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Family Thais: January 2011
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Sunday, January 16, 2011. It’s hard to believe Christmas came and went so quickly! We were so busy that we didn’t get a bunch of things done that we had hoped to accomplish, but we had an amazing holiday. We also took time while Penny had several days off from school due to snow to work on a gingerbread house kit together. Leah was not very happy with the whole project, but Penny and I enjoyed putting it together. Christmas Day dawned bright ...
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Family Thais: November 2010
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Monday, November 1, 2010. The Rest of October. The rest of October is gone in an absolute blur. I remember taking Penny and Leah to the mall for their photo shoot, and I more or less don’t remember a thing afterwards until I looked at the calendar today and saw a big, fat number 1 on it and thought, “Oh man, it’s November already! Then it was one week till Halloween! I made Leah a little happy pumpkin and in the other pumpkins we had gotten, ...
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Family Thais: May 2011
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Enjoy our experience as a host family for Penny from Thailand. Monday, May 30, 2011. Drawing to a Close…. It’s hard to believe but in less than one month, our first year as an AFS host family will be over. I am really in shock, as I think about it, that there’s so little time left—4 weeks, just 28 little days, and it’s over and done. Sheesh! 8221; quite loudly, and it was the most she said for a week, and a sweet memory to this day. Afterwards, Melissa dropped Penny off with my sister, Judy, and her fami...
