{"id":116,"date":"2026-05-05T02:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:42:54","slug":"laurie-host-4-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/laurie-host-4-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurie, Host &#8211; 4 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How easy was it to arrange meal times together with your student?- <strong>Easy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How often did you and the student get together in the term?\u00a0<strong>2x: once at our house and once at a Nigerian restaurant with him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What was your experience of your meal time with them?\u00a0\u00a0Enjoyable, difficult, a learning experience for you and them, or anything else?\u00a0<strong>he is a nice young man.\u00a0We did enjoy talking with him and learning\u00a0about\u00a0his country.  The second time we went out to a Nigerian restaurant with him: he picked\u00a0the place. Was fun to try food we had not tried before.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Do you see yourself continuing the relationship with the student as the term comes to an end?\u00a0\u00a0(Note that this is not expected of hosts or students, and would be seen as something hosts and students enter into of their own accord.\u00a0\u00a0We would also not be at all surprised if some chose to do that.)\u00a0I am not sure. <strong>We have not heard from him, except that I had said I would put the word out to a couple of my connections or give him leads, as he was looking for work. So we did go back and forth a bit on that. If he reached out, it would be great. I would\u00a0definitely\u00a0see how he was doing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Would you be willing to continue participation in the program, signing up for a new student in the fall term?\u00a0<strong>Yes sign us up again for new student. Meeting with a foreign student was new for us.\u00a0I think this is a\u00a0great\u00a0program. Thanks for doing this!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Based on your experience, would you be willing to invite people you know to sign up for the program?\u00a0<strong>Yes. I have a\u00a0couple\u00a0of people in mind.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How easy was it to arrange meal times together with your student?- Easy \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How often did you and the student get together in the term?\u00a02x: once at our house and once at a Nigerian restaurant with him.\u00a0 \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What was your experience of your meal time with them?\u00a0\u00a0Enjoyable, difficult, a learning experience for you and them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feedback","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalstudentconnections.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}