Experience the Exchange!!!

We have a foreign exchange student with us for the school year!!! We picked her up from the airport on Wednesday and I think she's finally getting over the jet lag! Her name is Sinthu and she is from Norway. She left Oslo, Norway, at 10:30pm (our time) on Tuesday and arrived at our local airport at 11:15pm on Wednesday! What a trip!!!!! And that isn't taking into account that it took 9 hours to get from her home to Oslo!
She speaks very good English although we're going to have to rid her of her British accent. :-) She will be a senior in school. She will still have one more year of school when she returns to Norway. She plays soccer and went to practice on Saturday and will go again tomorrow. She's been playing for quite a few years so I don't think she'll have a problem making the team! She is very outgoing and has already made friends on the team.
The kids are all adjusting quite well. They've even started bickering with one another in front of her. Not sure that's a good thing.
This is our second time hosting a student for the year. And we might just have 2 for the year (the program we are hosting through, EF Foundation, allows that). There are some students who haven't been placed with families but are on their way here. One family wants to host but has a son who will be having surgery this week. Once he is recovered, they might still be interested in hosting. So, until that decision is made, we will be having Frazsina from Hungary living with us! She arrives on August 30th. If the other family decides they can't host her, we will have her here for the rest of the year. We are actually very excited about it! She has been dancing (ballet) for 13 years, speaks 4 languages and wants to learn to play ice hockey! Right up my alley!!!!!
So, if you haven't ever had an exchange student, I highly suggest it!!! Even if you have just young children, having a teen in your home is quite an experience!! Brandon was only 7 when our first student came. We have loved it!!! I know my Mom and Dad could make a recommendation for it, too! We will continue in the years to come although next year we will have to switch to having boys. Brandon will be a bit too old to have a teen-age girl living with us! I'm sure having boys will be just as great!