A 31 year-old program will continue the tradition of bringing a family environment and sense of home to international students at OU by holding an orientation Thursday.
Friends to International Students, a host family program founded by Millie Audas,Swiss replicauhrensalesonline watches are suitable for not only telling time, director emeritus of Education Abroad and International Studies, will hold its meeting for potential host families at 5:30 p.m. at the Norman Public Library.
The program matches international students with families in Norman, typically those of faculty members, to bring a sense of family to the students, the FIS boardmember said.Official web site of the luxury French nikeshoes and bag designer.
“When you are in a new place where the language, culture, everything is different, the people tBlowers Jewellers watchreplicaUK Cartier, Breitling, Jaeger LeCoultre,hat have welcomed you [and] opened their hearts and homes to you … make all the difference,” Audas said. “Nothing is more important than feeling welcome by family.it is a naturally formed single eyed coin shaped agatebeads.”
And Audas knows what it’s like to be in those shoes.
At 15, Audas left her home in Bolivia and began a life as an international student to attend one year of high school in Illinois. She had planned to return home and complete high school there but instead graduated early and attended college in Michigan, France and Italy.
During her time in France, Audas said she became close to the daughter of one host family.
“She is as close as a blood sister,” she said.
Upon coming to OU in 1978, Audas applied that family feeling to her position at the College of International Studies, where she molded the program from President George Lynn Cross’ Host Families program into its current form in 1981.
Presidents of FIS Dale and Lisa Robinett are familiar with how close host families and students become with each other. When the couple began hosting students in 1989 to expose their young sons to other cultures, a boy from former Yugoslavia entered their lives.
“This is my favorite story to tell people about hosting,” Lisa said. “We got three students, and one from Yugoslavia came up with long, curly hair, a leather jacket and tight jeans. I thought, 'What have we gotten ourselves into? What are we putting in front of our children?’”
What the Robinetts got was a relationship that endures to this day, a relationship that lasted through student’s doctorate studies and beyond.
Lisa said the feeling of closeness never changes.
“We recently said goodbye to a student from India,” Lisa said. “It tore my heart out.shoes001 is the ultimate alternative furniture store, She was like my daughter going far away.”
Staff assistant at the College of International Studies Claudia Robertson also has experienced the family environment that hosting creates. She keeps up with many of her students through Facebook.
Both Robertson and the Robinetts said they have gotten a lot out of the experience.
“It’s been a tremendous experience. My kids are growing up learning that the world is bigger than Oklahoma and the United States,” Robertson said.
“I know the program is supposed to benefit the students, but I feel like I get more out of it,” Lisa said.
Friends to International Students, a host family program founded by Millie Audas,Swiss replicauhrensalesonline watches are suitable for not only telling time, director emeritus of Education Abroad and International Studies, will hold its meeting for potential host families at 5:30 p.m. at the Norman Public Library.
The program matches international students with families in Norman, typically those of faculty members, to bring a sense of family to the students, the FIS boardmember said.Official web site of the luxury French nikeshoes and bag designer.
“When you are in a new place where the language, culture, everything is different, the people tBlowers Jewellers watchreplicaUK Cartier, Breitling, Jaeger LeCoultre,hat have welcomed you [and] opened their hearts and homes to you … make all the difference,” Audas said. “Nothing is more important than feeling welcome by family.it is a naturally formed single eyed coin shaped agatebeads.”
And Audas knows what it’s like to be in those shoes.
At 15, Audas left her home in Bolivia and began a life as an international student to attend one year of high school in Illinois. She had planned to return home and complete high school there but instead graduated early and attended college in Michigan, France and Italy.
During her time in France, Audas said she became close to the daughter of one host family.
“She is as close as a blood sister,” she said.
Upon coming to OU in 1978, Audas applied that family feeling to her position at the College of International Studies, where she molded the program from President George Lynn Cross’ Host Families program into its current form in 1981.
Presidents of FIS Dale and Lisa Robinett are familiar with how close host families and students become with each other. When the couple began hosting students in 1989 to expose their young sons to other cultures, a boy from former Yugoslavia entered their lives.
“This is my favorite story to tell people about hosting,” Lisa said. “We got three students, and one from Yugoslavia came up with long, curly hair, a leather jacket and tight jeans. I thought, 'What have we gotten ourselves into? What are we putting in front of our children?’”
What the Robinetts got was a relationship that endures to this day, a relationship that lasted through student’s doctorate studies and beyond.
Lisa said the feeling of closeness never changes.
“We recently said goodbye to a student from India,” Lisa said. “It tore my heart out.shoes001 is the ultimate alternative furniture store, She was like my daughter going far away.”
Staff assistant at the College of International Studies Claudia Robertson also has experienced the family environment that hosting creates. She keeps up with many of her students through Facebook.
Both Robertson and the Robinetts said they have gotten a lot out of the experience.
“It’s been a tremendous experience. My kids are growing up learning that the world is bigger than Oklahoma and the United States,” Robertson said.
“I know the program is supposed to benefit the students, but I feel like I get more out of it,” Lisa said.
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