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LWC'S International Student Program- Ode to our host parents! By Sabine Eastham, Director, International Student Programs News from Lindsey Wilson College Why is the LWC/ISP program so successful? Why do our current 109 international students from 39 different countries feel like home here in Columbia, KY- so far away from home? The short answer can be given with one word: host parents! Students are being paired with host parents to help them adjust. Minimum requirements would be to meet them about three times per semester, perhaps meet them for lunch, check in on them and invite them for a BBQ. Yes, minimum requirements.... However the involvement goes much deeper and is what tips the scales, what is turning their experience into an awesome one...it is what gives their parents' far away a sense of "OKAY". Let me lead you behind the scenes and tell you the stories behind the story: (This is in no particular order and definitely not a complete accounting of deeds, but just a sampling of awesomeness). Students feel so right at home, because our host parents:
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