Former student calls every year.

[maddmaxx ★]

Back in the 90's we used to host a summer camp/education opportunity for students from France who came here to learn english and to see as much of America as they could.  Arrangements would be made for host families to have the students stay with then and then during the day they would all gather here for some classes and lots of field trips where they could practice their English.  We've stayed in touch over all these years and  one calls us every New Years Day as well as special holidays such as womaxx's birthday.  Our teenage student is all grown up and is considering sending his children here one day for something similar.  He's been here twice during the years to visit and stay for a day or so.  Last time he brought his family.  It would be good to have the opportunity again.

[bikeman564™]

very cool

[Dottleshead ★]

Way cool.

[Airehead ★]

You are good people Max 

[maddmaxx ★]

The program with the French students was what started my Oldest son on his path as an English teacher.  Not an English teacher in the traditional sense, but an English as a second language teacher ESL.  He worked with womaxx and the last year we hosted he was the primary teacher as womaxx was busy all summer long in school, having changed to a 12 month position.  He was actually still in high school at the time and we had to pretend that womaxx was the full time teacher........  He did it well.  He also attended a 2 year crash course in Japanese at the University of Central CT, Majored in Finance and minored in Japanese at the University of Rochester.  Upon graduation he went to Japan as an exchange teacher to teach English to Japanese students for 5 years.  He returned to the US via Czechoslovakia where he attended a school certifying him as an ESL teacher world wide (except in the US where one has to follow the traditional teacher path to get the job).  Eventually back to Malaysia under a government contract there to teach teachers how to teach ESL.  Fill in the gaps with a bit of global bumming around in Thailand, Cambodia and now in the PRC working for Tufts University,  Rutgers University and the University of Rochester, teaching ESL, SAT prep, Finance and AP math to high school students who wish to attend a US university.

He loves Asia and probably wouldn't come home to stay unless something really big happened.

[MoseySusan ★]

That is beautiful!