[MCN] Seeking: Awesome host family for 2023-24 school year for Kumamoto senior!

[Sarah Smith]

Hi Missoula families,
I'm the local coordinator for Greenheart Exchange looking for a host family for a girl from Kumamoto, Japan for the 2023-24 high school year. Hosting is from late August - mid June (essentially the school year). Their visa is attached to their school attendance. They can attend any of the three high schools here in Missoula depending on where the host family lives. 
This year, Ayame has been selected as the Kumamoto scholarship student to Missoula as part of the 40 year sister-state relationship established by Montana Senator Mike Mansfield. These Kumamoto students are selected through a rigorous process and are excited to share their Japanese culture while making connections and memories with a family here in Montana. Ayame comes from a close family of 5 with two older brothers. She plays piano, competes in gymnastics, practices Japanese Sado (traditional tea ceremony), loves trying new activities, sports, and listening to music. She sounds like a very positive person, who is excited to "see and feel big nature" of Montana. She wants to part of family here in Montana to help her build her sense of personal growth, and experience all that she can. Her dream is become a flight attendant. She will enter school in Missoula as a senior in high school.
Greenheart students come with their own spending money and health insurance; host families are expected to provide 3 meals a day, a bed/room of their own (they can share a bedroom with a host sibling of same-sex), transportation to and from school, and most importantly an open and loving home to treat them as one of their own to share their lives for a home stay. Greenheart Exchange is open and inclusive in its host families.  
Please contact me, Sarah Smith, if you are interested... or even curious to hear more information. You don't have to be perfect, just open to the experience of cultural exchange and willing to share your home and life experiences with another.  
Thanks!Sarah
406.270.1811
smaigin at yahoo.com



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