My wife and I are in our mid to late 40s, but that won't stop us from making our family larger by mid August.
Enrica Pastore, a sixteen year old Italian girl from Milan, will arrive as an exchange student in just a few months
as we become a host family for about 300 days.
We still have one or two official hoops to jump, but we have been corresponding with Enrica for a week or two and
everyone seems very excited....especially our eleven year old daughter, Gabriella.
Gaby wanted a sibling and we wanted to help someone experience our great culture in America by opening our home,
our lives and our hearts. Even with some current troubles, we are truly blessed to have what we have and to have what is offered
to us in these United States.
It will be an interesting time as Miss Pastore gradually prepares to leave home for a year, and we make arrangements to immediately
have a teenager from another land squeeze into the nest. Hopefully with faith, hope, happiness and plenty of give and take we
can all spread our wings to soar toward great memories that will last always.
David
If you have even been an exchange student, known one or have been a host family please blog back and give me encouragement!
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