{"id":26,"date":"2008-07-05T22:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T03:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-02-10T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T22:59:11","slug":"hosting-an-exchange-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/foreign-language-instruction-for-children\/hosting-an-exchange-student","title":{"rendered":"Hosting an Exchange student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members,<\/p>\n<p>We have happily agreed to host an exchange student from Spain this summer. When my husband and I agreed, we had no idea how amazing the experience would be!<\/p>\n<p>The idea of having a foreign child in your home, who usually doesn&#8217;t speak the language spoken in the household and has our culture and environment as a whole new world to explore, made us rethink our values and appreciate more our lives and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing moments such as when he saw a squirrel for the first time in his life or when he made a yucky face to peanut butter; see him hugging my son as a brother and have him by my side 24\/7 because I&#8217;m the only person in the household who really speaks his language, has been to his country and understands his fears and anxiety&#8230;.all those moments make the experience priceless for a family and for the children in the household.<\/p>\n<p>I must confess my only dilemma is use the Spanish to help him, when I&#8217;m really not helping him because he is here to learn English&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to share our experience with other parents who might be searching for feedback from parents who had done it.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly encourage parents to do it!!!<\/p>\n<p>Saludos,<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Krusch<\/p>\n<p>CK Translations LLC<\/p>\n<p>Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members, We have happily agreed to host an exchange student from Spain this summer. When my husband and I agreed, we had no idea how amazing the experience would be! The idea of having a foreign child in your home, who usually doesn&#8217;t speak the language spoken in the household and has our culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-exchange-student","category-foreign-language-instruction-for-children","tag-foreign-exchange-student"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cktranslations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}