Host An Ayusa Exchange Student with Tricia
We are Community Representatives for Ayusa. We work with Volunteer host families in Eastern Missouri.
This page is designed to give prospective families a place to learn about hosting and ask questions of former Host families and Exchange students.
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ISO a loving host family for one of our SCHOLARSHIP students.
Meet Ivan from Bulgaria!
🌏RELIGION: Christian (occasionally) - no diet
🌏Passions: aviation (plane spotting/flying), fashion/beauty, Entrepreneurship
🌏Other Hobbies/Interests: art, STEM projects, museums, parks, swimming for fun, gym, photography, tennis, cooking, shopping
🌏Family: only child, lives w/mom, her boyfriend, & grandmother
🌏Family Activities: walks, day trips/traveling
🌏Pets/animals: Loves them! Asthma makes it difficult to be around them sometimes, but can still live with them
🌏Favorite Subjects: STEM, foreign languages
🌏Would like to do: try all kinds of new foods, student government, STEM, swimming, maybe tennis
🌏He is a student council member
Message me or email at [email protected]
ISO a loving host family for Eilyn, from France.🇫🇷
https://youtu.be/yaGWmluvEa8
Top interests: baking,🥐 theater, 🎭writing and music 🎹🎶(playing the piano🎹 and singing).
Other interests: cooking, badminton🏸, table tennis🏓, climbing, swimming, dancing, reading, skiing.
Wants to do in the US: join school clubs 🎭(drama/theater), join the school choir🎙️, go to a baseball game⚾
Favorite subjects: drama/theater and learning languages, English 🇺🇸and German🇩🇪 at school, Korean🇰🇷, Spanish🇪🇸, and Japanese🇯🇵 on her own.
Pets: dog🐕, 2 cats🐈🐈. Loves animals.
She is an academic year student, meaning, she would arrive in August, attend your local high school🏫 and return to France in June of 2025
Exchange students come with
their own Health insurance,
their own spending money,
and a great sense of adventure and BRAVERY!
Host Families provide,
3 meals a day,
reasonable transportation to school (bus🚌 is GREAT!)
and loving support
ISO a host family for Kinda, from Lebanon!🇱🇧
Kinda is a YES scholarship student. Only 3% of students that apply are selected for this scholarship.
Kinda is from a small town of less that 1000 people!
Kinda loves ✒️drawing, 🖼️painting, and 🖼️crafts.
Kinda is an avid reader! 📚
Kinda is also still waiting to hear she has been matched with an American Host family!
Are you the ordinary family, that becomes Kinda's EXTRAORDINARY Host family?
message me or email at [email protected]
Pizza Loving Family!!
I am ISO an American host family for Sara, from Italy 🇮🇹.
SHE LOVES pizza 🍕and sushi 🍣!
Are you her America Host family? How much fun would it be to share pizza with an ITALIAN!
Message me for more information on hosting or email at [email protected]
PS Pizza is my LOVE LANGUAGE!
It's National Apple Pie Day !!
What is more American than Apple Pie? I believe it is our open hearts. How many of us have folks that we call family, but are in no way related to them? We are people who love to show love to others! Hosting an exchange student is more than just opening your home to a teenager from a foreign land, it is extending your family and adding one more heart to love 🥰
Stop by www.ayusa.org and meet our waiting students. I bet one will melt your heart ! 😊
Happy Mother’s Day, to all our Ayusa host moms, Past, Present and Future. Thank you for loving our kiddos like your own!
Meet Eva-Maria!!!! from Germany🇩🇪
She Loves spending time in nature with her family, mountain biking🚵 in the forest, picking mushrooms, swimming in the lake.
She also enjoys playing the piano🎹, Latin dancing💃🏻, reading📖, listening to podcasts🎧, making bead bracelets, yoga.🧘♀️
Her hope is to participate in athletics,🏅 cheerleading🤸, exploring nature.🏞️
She has 2 rabbits.🐇🐇 Loves animals, especially dogs🐶.
She has a younger sister
Things she likes to do with her family Sunday family walks, board games, visiting grandparents, mountain biking, skiing.
She hope to explore the area, get to know their culture with her host family.
Fun Facts about Eva-Maria:
✔️She has never been to the U.S.
✔️she works at a bakery once a week,
✔️participates in youth parliament
✔️AND tutors a 6th grade student in Math
Do you have a open heart and a desire to help others!!!
email me [email protected] or visit our www.ayusa.org to check out other great students like Eva-Maria
Meet Jule, from Germany,
Jule would love to be in a host family with no children, as she had many boarding school siblings and would now love to be a single child in a family. Jule prefers living in rural areas or on a farm
This was a great day!
ISO
Help me find a HOST FAMILY for Jakob, from Germany🇩🇪
Top interests: playing handball🐔, training younger players, and refereeing.
Other interests: soccer⚽, fishing🎣, repairing his moped🛵, skiing, go-karting, handyman repairs🧰 around the house.
Wants to do in the US: play basketball🛵l, attend sports activities⚾,🏈⚽
Career goals: mechanical engineer.
Pets: an aquarium inside the house🐟; cat,🐈 rabbits🐇, chickens🐔, 2 pigs🐖, ducks 🦆outside.
Siblings: 2 brothers (18, 10)
Family activities: playing games, helping take care of the animals, weekend trips, family celebrations🎉
Wants to do with HF: be part of the family, go fishing🎣, play sports, share humor, share German culture, prepare German food.
Other: lives on a farm with lots of animals.🐖🦆
: volunteers at the church, mowing the lawn and keeping things tidy.
message me //[email protected] // www.ayusa.org
Our Students speak English, come with their own health insurance and spending money.
Host family provides a home, meals and loving support and gains a family member!
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Host an Exchange Student and gain a family member, amazing memories and life changing experiences wrapped in culture, traditions, language and foods from a country you choose. Reach out for more info!