Host family is important to international students

By Min Jiao
January 29, 2013

Each international student has a host family in Southwestern College. Host family is all American people who live in Winfield and volunteer become an international student’s host family.

We come from different countries, so host parents like international students’ parents in the United States.

Our campus has some international students, like Chinese, Singaporean, Malaysian, and so on. We come from different countries and our families, friends live in other countries. We want to learn more knowledge and skills so we come here.

However, we usually feel get alone particularly Chinese students. Because of English is second language to Chinese students. We learn Chinese when we were young and didn’t speak English in daily life.

We always miss our families and friends. The host family is like our family. International Club like hold some activities, they invited international students and their host family. This is good way to communication.

Sometimes, host family invited us join their activities, like eat at their house, barbecue, shopping, and so on. Like generic family activities. This is good thing for international students because they lived in other country before and they didn’t have car when they just come here.

I remembered first time my host family invited me and my roommate went to Wichita zoo in my first semester. That is my first time leave school went to other place. Also it is my first time went to American zoo. I’m very happy went to there. This is my memorable experience.

Of course, my host family like invited join their activities, I feel so happy about it. I believe other international students are same to me.

For now, I’m very busy because I have a lot of classes and homework. I don’t have enough time to join their activities. However, they also important to me like my family.

Every semester have new international students study at our school. They also get their host family. I hope they will enjoy it.