<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpddc096ceyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>Hello Missoula area, Bitterroot area families,<br><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm the local
coordinator for Greenheart Exchange looking for a host family
for a high school girl from Kumamoto, Japan. She is hoping to come to
Missoula for the upcoming high school year; but I'm still waiting to hear from Missoula schools to see if they are accepting exchange students this year. If not many of the smaller high schools (Frenchtown, Stevi, etc) are. <span>Montana and Kumamoto
are sister-states, and each year, as part of a special agreement and scholarship, one or two
Kumamoto students come for a year of exchange in the Missoula area. </span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div>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 and share their lives for a
10 month home stay. Greenheart Exchange is open and inclusive to all kinds of
host families. <br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This year we
have a 15 year old girl, Yuika, who will be entering into 10th grade in high school. Yuika comes from a close family with two older brothers. She loves baking (and cooking too) but hopes to share Japanese style baking and learn American recipes too. She is a big reader, novels and manga, and listens to American music to practice her English. Yuika plays handball and loves to skateboard; she hopes to learn winter sports while here in Montana. <span> <span><span>This will be here first time traveling abroad and
she is so excited to share her Japanese culture and improve her English and be part of an American family. All Japanese students come early to the US for 4 weeks of English language camp before arriving to their host families.<br></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span></span></span></span><br></div><span><span><span></span></span></span><br><div>Please contact me, Sarah Smith, if you are interested... or even curious to hear more information. <br><div dir="ltr">406.270.1811<br><div>smaigin@yahoo.com</div></div></div><div><br><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpddc096cesignature"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"></span><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>