Host an International Exchange Student

With EF High School Exchange Year

When you host a high school exchange student, you make a difference in so many ways—for your student, for your own family, in your community, and across the globe. Each year, EF High School Exchange Year brings nearly 3,000 international exchange students to live with caring host families across America. You can be a part of it in Bakersfield!

TOP REASONS TO HOST:

• As a host family bringing cultures together, you play a meaningful role in making our world a kinder, more tolerant, more understanding place.

• Maybe you have ancestors from another country and want to reconnect with your heritage, or you became interested in another culture during a trip and want to experience it more in-depth. Students come from 13 different countries, you can choose the student who will best fit into your family!

• If you have children of your own, an international teenager in your home is like a big brother or sister from another country. It may even inspire your children to go out and see the world someday!

• If you're interested in another country's language and culture, hosting a student is a way to experience the wider world right in your own home. You will also see your own city, state and country through new eyes, your student’s.

• If you have older children who have grown up or gone off to college, you may have an extra room available and miss having teenagers around the house—the perfect chance to host an exchange student!

• You will have a great support system from other families who are hosting, myself -your local coordinator, and others who represent EF. We have been welcoming students here since 1979 and I personally have been hosting students for 20 years.

I hope that I have piqued your interest to try this new experience! You will make friends for life and your family will be blessed by this. Please contact me atdlbensonmail@gmail.com I would love to talk to you!