Local Host Families Needed For Exchange Students

ASSE International Student Exchange Program is seeking local families interested in hosting a high school foreign exchange student for the 2004-05 school year. Students are between ages 15 and 18, well screened, and English-speaking. Each is anxious to learn more about the United States by living as part of an American family and attending the local high school. Students come from the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Italy, France, Brazil, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Japan, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and the former Soviet Union.

Interested families should contact local area representative Joyce McKenney at 203-737-4666 or 800-677-2773. They may also visit www.asse.com.