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Michelle Leco
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The following was originally posted to our old Forum:
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Mike Leco
USATourist Administrator
Joined: 14 Jun 2004
Posts: 101
Location: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA
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 Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: Friends in the USA |
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About six years ago, I was hosting a travel chat on the old MSN network. While dispensing travel information about the USA to overseas tourists, I encountered a young French girl who was interested in learning about US culture. I chatted with her weekly, and sent her a few postcards from various US destinations. She expressed an interest in visiting the USA.
I eventually invited her to visit with my family if she ever came to the USA, and offered her hospitality in our home. She was very excited about the idea and asked if her parents were also invited. I said, of course.
The next week, her father came to the chat session and asked me if I had truly invited them all to my home. I assured him that I was serious. Over the next weeks, they made plans to come to the USA for the Christmas holiday season. I met them at the airport, and took them to our home. Our family spent several days with this excited girl from France and her parents. We showed them the Christmas lights and the local attractions. We cooked a grand Christmas feast for them. We had a wonderful time together. They got a chance to experience a real US Christmas celebration with an American family, and we got a chance to meet a wonderful little girl and her parents. Today, she is a young lady that has many fond remembrances of the USA. She has chosen to study at an American university.
If more people in the USA would spend a little bit of time welcoming visitors from other countries, they might gain a better understanding of other cultures. They might spread a bit of understanding about US culture. We might move a little bit closer to a peaceful world.
Please consider offering your friendship to foreign tourists as an e-mail pal or as a supplier of advice on this bulletin board. Let's show the world that people in the USA are friendly, kind and compassionate and generous to strangers. | |
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karola
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:07 am Post subject: i,m totally agree with you |
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hey Mike¡¡¡¡
i,m karola, i,m 24 years, i,m spanish but i loveeee america, i wanna live there in a future, i have been in places like: Los angeles, las vegas, san francisco, miami,orlando; but never is enough for me.
I,m teacher in education for children and every year i try to apply for getting a chance in USA like teacher in a educational program what held in Spain (Madird), but each time the proof are so difficult and there are less places each time.
Now i wanna go to teach there because in my country the education is not so good like your country and i love teach in another country with other cultures, is my lifeeee, but I know is so easy like looks.
I would like keep in touch with you, so if you like you can write me to: Karolilla80@yahoo.es
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: Re: i,m totally agree with you |
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| karola wrote: |
hey Mike¡¡¡¡
i,m karola, i,m 24 years, i,m spanish but i loveeee america, i wanna live there in a future, i have been in places like: Los angeles, las vegas, san francisco, miami,orlando; but never is enough for me.
I,m teacher in education for children and every year i try to apply for getting a chance in USA like teacher in a educational program what held in Spain (Madird), but each time the proof are so difficult and there are less places each time.
Now i wanna go to teach there because in my country the education is not so good like your country and i love teach in another country with other cultures, is my lifeeee, but I know is so easy like looks.
I would like keep in touch with you, so if you like you can write me to: Karolilla80@yahoo.es
thanks for your time |     | |
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Aaron Zapashniy
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Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1
Location: Hungary
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: Hi there! |
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| I'm newbie here and have to introduce myself. My name is Alex, 28 y.o. from Hungary. I have been looking for such kind of forum for a long time and at least I'm here. Hope that I'll become a member of this community and finally get the answers on all my questions, and may be my experience will be useful for all the ppl around. My Geek code GKDGRGBJ68QN. | |
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OGDENGONDOLA
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Joined: 11 Jul 2006
Posts: 5
Location: UTAH
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: WE HAVE HOSTED MANY TIMES FROM ABROAD |
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WE HAVE HOSTED YOUTHS DURING THE SUMMERS WITH OUR FAMILY MANY TIMES AND NEARLY ALL HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY GOOD CULTURAL EXPERIANCES FOR BOTH US AND THE YOUTHS WE HAVE HOSTED.
THEY HAVE COME FROM COSTA RICO,BRAZIL,JAPAN,SPAIN,FRANCE AND NEW YORK CITY,THE BEST EXPERIANCES WE'RE WHEN WE HOSTED THE BOYS FROM KOLBE AND HIROSHIMA,JAPAN.THEY WE'RE SO COURTEOUS,HELPFUL,CONSIDERATE AND RESPECTFUL,IF ONLY AMERICAN BOYS WERE ALL SO GRAND,LOL
THEY WERE EAGER TO LEARN,ENJOYED THE CULTURE,SIGHTSEEING AND WERE A REAL PLUS FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS.
REX/SHARON BULLINGTON
OGDEN,UTAH
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Tall Lucrecia
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Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Posts: 1
Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| why didn't you just call them about it? | |
Michelle
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